As the climate got colder 24,000 years ago, Stone Age Europeans turned from hunting mammoths to hunting caribou for their fur ...

Stone tools dating back 150,000 years have been found in the jungle, revealing early human occupation in dense tropical ...

Humans in Argentina may have survived 20,000 years ago by hunting giant armadillos, according to a recent study. This ...

If you've ever wondered how farming spread far and wide, our research on past human societies offers one explanation: contact between different groups often drives change.

Early Human Settlement Excavations at the cave site of Latnija by ... said in the press release. “They were hunting and cooking these deer alongside tortoises and birds, including some that were ...

The artifacts discovered in a cave—which include dart tips, a boomerang and a spear-throwing tool—were dated to as far back ...

Seated on sandbags in South Africa's Sterkfontein caves, where one of our earliest ancestors was found, Itumeleng Molefe ...

For decades, archaeologists and historians pointed to climate change, rivers, or fertile land as the main reasons early people gave up hunting and gathering to grow food. But new research now ...

Their analyses revealed the green Sahara individuals likely branched off from the ancestors of sub-Saharan Africans roughly ...

Similar Palaeolithic dogs have emerged at sites in Germany, Spain, and Belgium. The 14,000-year-old remains at Bonn-Oberkassel, for instance, included a partial skeleton that was buried with humans.