Roughly 476,000 years ago, early human ancestors were already building wooden structures, far earlier than scientists thought ...

Early humans were quarrying stone in southern Africa over 200,000 years ago, reveals new research. People quarried rocks for their tools in places they specifically sought out thousands of years ...

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

For more than 1 million years, early humans in the Levant region of the eastern Mediterranean used a range of heavy tools, such as massive handaxes and stone balls, for important tasks, including ...

A drop in the number of huge animals 200,000 years ago may have forced ancient humans to abandon heavy-duty stone tools in favour of lightweight toolkits to hunt smaller animals. That’s according to a ...

As long as 220,000 years ago—far earlier than previously thought—people quarried rocks for their tools in places they specifically sought out. An international research team led by the University of ...

New research shows Stone Age people in southern Africa were quarrying hornfels deliberately at the Jojosi site over 200,000 years ago, much earlier than thought. Excavations revealed production waste ...

An international research team from Germany, the UK, and Greece has found evidence that wooden tools were used in Greece ...

Early humans were quarrying stone in southern Africa over 200,000 years ago, reveals new research. People quarried rocks for their tools in places they specifically sought out thousands of years ...

Scientists have uncovered compelling evidence that humans reached New Guinea and Australia around 60,000 years ago—earlier than some recent theories suggested. By tracing maternal DNA lineages, the ...

New study shows that early humans living about 800,000 years ago depended on fire in smart, practical ways. Instead of searching for the “best” wood, they took advantage of what nature provided, ...