A stretch of hillside south of Haifa has yielded an unexpected window into a distant chapter of human history. Archaeologists ...

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 ...

For decades, paleoanthropologists pointed to tiny grooves between ancient hominin teeth as proof that early humans and ...

Evidence from a remote site on Sulawesi reveals that ancient human relatives crossed a deep ocean barrier more than a million years ago. The discovery extends the earliest known human movements in ...

Four lifelike reconstructions of prehistoric humans have been unveiled — including a model of a species often dubbed "the hobbit," which, as an adult, was about the same height as a modern 4-year-old.

Malaria may have shaped early human life across Africa far earlier than once thought, steering where people could safely live and when groups stayed apart. By tracing ancient mosquito habitats, ...

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In May 2020, a research team announced the exciting results of their study of the largest fossil human footprint site in Africa: Engare Sero, Tanzania. With nearly 400 footprints, these fossilized ...