Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The evidence shows that early hominins returned to the same area again and again between 2.75 and 2.44 million years ago. (CREDIT: ...

A new study shows that early humans shifted from hunting giants to smaller animals, shaping tools, survival, and intelligence.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Our prehistoric human ancestors relied on deliberately modified and sharpened stone tools as early as 3.3 million years ago. The ...

For decades, textbooks painted a dramatic picture of early humans as tool-using hunters who rose quickly to the top of the food chain. The tale was that Homo habilis, one of the earliest ...

Stephen has degrees in science (Physics major) and arts (English Literature and the History and Philosophy of Science), as well as a Graduate Diploma in Science Communication. Stephen has degrees in ...

More than a million years ago, early human relatives crossed an enormous sea to reach the Indonesian island of Sulawesi. The discovery pushes back the record of human migration in Southeast Asia and ...

The earliest known hand-held wooden tools, used by our early human ancestors around 430,000 years ago, have been uncovered by researchers at an archeological site in Greece. Subscribe to read this ...

Researchers believe they’ve found the earliest known use of hand-held wooden tools in human history. The team points to artifacts from Greece of crafted pieces of alder and either willow or poplar, ...

A new study from The Hebrew University of Jerusalem reveals how early humans used fire daily, gathered wood nearby, and lived ...

Our prehistoric human ancestors relied on deliberately modified and sharpened stone tools as early as 3.3 million years ago. The selection of rock type depended on how easily the material could be ...