Imagine early humans meticulously crafting stone tools for nearly 300,000 years, all while contending with recurring ...

The very first humans millions of years ago may have been inventors, according to a discovery in northwest Kenya. Researchers ...

Imagine early humans meticulously crafting stone tools for nearly 300,000 years, all while contending with recurring ...

Researchers uncovered a 2.75–2.44 million-year-old site in Kenya showing that early humans maintained stone tool traditions for nearly 300,000 years despite extreme climate swings. The tools, ...

Tools recovered from three sedimentary layers in Kenya show continuous tool use spanning from 2.75 to 2.44 million years ago in the face of environmental changes.

Among some people, it changed their lifestyles, brought comfort in daily lives, improved health, education, and business.

For more than 50 years, since the discovery of the skull of Paranthropus boisei, an extinct human relative known for its extremely powerful jaws and massive teeth, ...

Anthropologist Christopher Bae has recently suggested we add two new species of ancient human to our family tree. The plans ...

Long before there were maps or names for continents, a handful of people stood at the edge of the world. Picture them on a ...

New evidence from South China reveals how early humans adapted to environmental transformations during the Late Pleistocene. Using pollen, isotopic, ...

The role of megafaunal exploitation in early human evolution remains debated. Occasional use of large carcasses by early hominins has been considered by some as opportunistic, possibly a fallback ...

Southern Cape likely origin of modern humans’ global migration.Coastal resources and advanced culture aided survival and dispersal.Evidence includes ...