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 ...

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.

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

Shane Smith spent most of Friday taking in all the sights, sounds and magic of being at Fenway Park as a Major League Baseball Player for the first time. By Saturday, it was time to focus on business.

Rethinking the “Paleo” Diet Modern diets often idealize what early humans supposedly ate. The popular “paleo” diet focuses on meat and avoids grains, dairy, and legumes. It's based on the ...

Geologist Prof. Suresh Chopane's find includes bones and Stone Age tools, suggesting human interaction with these mega-fauna. Validated by national and international scholars, the fossils offer ...

An archaeological site in Germany suggests communal hunting and complex thinking emerged earlier in human evolution than once thought.

A new study reconstructing the Arabian Peninsula’s ancient past adds clues to how early humans left the African continent. Dromedary camels walk through sand dunes in the Arabian Desert near ...

As faith in the Akashi find waned, attention turned more heavily toward the Ushikawa fossils—until the new study dismantled their human classification altogether. This reshuffling leaves a gap in the ...

Living in caves provided some protection from UV rays. "We found that many of those regions actually match pretty closely with early human activity from 41,000 years ago, specifically an increase ...