These piercing eyes belong to a reconstruction of a Neanderthal, an ancient human relative that shared the planet with Denisovans and modern humans. Genetic research suggests that they went ...

A newly published research paper has reignited debate about when humans first set foot in Australia, proposing a later date ...

Ancient sediment reveals humans began systematically using fire 50,000 years ago, reshaping global climate patterns.

Japanese researchers turned to “experimental archaeology” to study how ancient humans navigated powerful ocean currents and ...

At the heart of the discovery lie stone tools — silent, sharp witnesses to a vanished way of life. What sets the inhabitants ...

Researcher used carbon dating to provide evidence that humans had arrived in Brazil much earlier than previously thought.

Archaeological discoveries in Sharjah's Jebel Faya rock shelter have unearthed 80,000-year-old stone tools, the oldest Middle ...

New research reveals why early human attempts to leave Africa repeatedly failed—until one group succeeded spectacularly ...

(CN) — A boomerang made from a mammoth’s tusk pulled from a Polish cave could be one of the oldest known examples of a ...

Humans are the only animal that lives in virtually every possible environment, from rainforests to deserts to tundra.