The Palaeolithic archaeological record in Britain captures a rather sudden increase in stone knapping skills around half a ...

Two prehistoric genomes have revealed the history of HPV and challenged the idea that Neanderthals first transmitted the ...

Peculiar 60,000-year-old Stone Age arrowheads unearthed in South Africa could be the earliest known use of poison-laced ...

A remarkable discovery on a remote Swedish island is reshaping what scientists know about early human–wolf relationships and the origins of domestication.

The oldest direct evidence of humans using poisoned arrows was in the Holocene, which began 11,700 years ago. Bone arrow ...

Over time, as the availability of large game declined, humans had to adapt to hunting smaller animals and using fire more consistently. A groundbreaking study by researchers at Tel Aviv University ...

The exhibition offers visitors in KL a rare chance to study the remains up close and explore Malaysia's prehistoric life ...

Discover evidence of ancient hominins coexisting with early humans in Indonesia 200,000 years ago. A groundbreaking find for ...

HUBEI, China (WKRC/CNN Newsource) - The reexamination of a prehistoric skull led researchers to believe that humanity may have began 400,000 years earlier than previously thought. A badly crushed ...

Editor’s note: A version of this story appeared in CNN’s Wonder Theory science newsletter. To get it in your inbox, sign up for free here. Tens of thousands of years ago, our species — Homo sapiens — ...

Early Humans Relied On Simple Stone Tools For 300,000 Years In A Changing East African Landscape. Our prehistoric human ancestors relied on deliberately modified and sharpened stone tools as early as ...

Archaeologists have made a discovery that could challenge everything we know about human development. Footage shows scientists examining an excavation site of a 400,000-year-old pond sediment in ...