In Wonderwerk Cave in South Africa, burned bones were found in a dirt layer associated with Homo erectus. The inhabitants probably hadn't mastered fire-making, but researchers say they may have moved ...

It’s considered to be one of the most decisive steps in human evolution. Now, scientists believe they have pinpointed when our ancestors made the transition from walking on all fours to standing on ...

Archaeologists working at a cave site in central Israel have recovered five human burials dated to roughly 100,000 years ago, ...

Chimpanzees showed a remarkable attraction to crystals, choosing them over ordinary stones and studying them with intense ...

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 ...

How did humans become human? Understanding when, where and in what environmental conditions our early ancestors lived is central to solving the puzzle of human evolution. Unfortunately, pinning down a ...

It was a sharp discovery for archaeologists in Kenya. Archeologists have uncovered three-million-year-old tools used by early humans in an area of Africa called “the cradle of humankind.” Kenya’s Homa ...

A new study looks at an unexpected force that played a critical role in shaping the lives of ancient humans. How mosquitoes — and malaria — helped shape the whereabouts of early humankind For tens of ...