Our prehistoric human ancestors relied on deliberately modified and sharpened stone tools as early as 3.3 million years ago.

Repeated flower designs on ancient pottery hint that early village life relied on counting and shared ideas way before math ...

Learn about a 500,000-year old hammer made from elephant bone, used by early humans in England to sharpen stone tools.

Researchers in Australia think the painting - which has been discovered in South East Asia - could tell us more about how ...

Some practices and skills known by early humans have been lost to time. Sometimes this is because of changing environments or ...

Early humans were not just scavengers. New research shows they actively butchered elephants, transforming survival and social ...

Learn about the most complete Homo habilis fossil ever found, and how this fossil is changing what we know about human ...

The findings reveal that humans were using sophisticated hunting tools thousands of years before previously thought ...

A field in eastern England has revealed evidence of the earliest known instance of humans creating and controlling fire, a significant find that archaeologists say illuminates a dramatic turning point ...

Researchers found that ancient hominids—including early humans—were exposed to lead throughout childhood, leaving chemical traces in fossil teeth. Experiments suggest this exposure may have driven ...