The findings, based on the analysis of human fossils in a Moroccan cave dating back nearly 800,000 years possibly shift the focus from Europe back to the African continent. The fossils, mainly ...

Archaeologists in Greece have discovered 430,000-year-old handheld wooden tools, the oldest surviving examples of their kind ...

Thousands of years before the invention of compasses or sails, prehistoric peoples crossed oceans to reach remote lands like ...

A new way of analysing fossils has revealed more about animals and environments of ancient times, when humans were evolving.

"Researchers have argued for decades that while hominins in Africa and western Europe demonstrated significant technological ...

What’s particularly exciting about finds like this is that we just so rarely have wood preserved for that long,” the study’s ...

The finding, along with the discovery of a 500,000-year-old hammer made of bone, indicates that our human ancestors were ...

Researchers discovered 68,000-year-old cave art in Indonesia, the oldest-known evidence of Homo sapiens in the area. The ...

The issue of who was considered Greek during the era of ancient Greece has been a matter of broad scholarly debate for ...

A Roman-era skeleton discovered in southern England has finally given up her secrets after more than a decade of debate.

Little Foot is a nearly complete ancient skeleton found in the Sterkfontein caves in South Africa that could change how ...