Archaeological discoveries show that early humans practiced forms of surgery long before written history. From skull ...

New archaeological discoveries from Malta suggest that prehistoric hunter-gatherers were far more capable oflong-distance sea travel than previously believed. These findings are reshaping our ...

New research reveals Stone Age foragers in Africa traveled miles to collect colorful stones, showing early trade, taste, and ...

The hominins who lived at Gantangqing lived a heavily plant-based subsistence lifestyle. They had access to meat, and also ...

A new study has shown that as early as the Stone Age, people in Africa traveled long distances to procure colorful stone, the ...

Anthropologists at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History and an international team of collaborators have discovered that early humans in East Africa had—by about 320,000 years ago—begun ...

Early human impacts and ecosystem reorganization in southern-central Africa, Science Advances (2021). DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.abf9776. ... Early humans used fire to permanently change the landscape tens ...

Even our earliest human ancestors were no dummies; there is evidence for stone tools as early as 3.3 million years ago, though they were probably making tools from perishable items even earlier.

Humans are the only animal that lives in virtually every possible environment, from rainforests to deserts to tundra. This ...

As a result, scientists have limited information about when and how early Stone Age humans used this basic raw material. An excavation team uncover a wooden structure at the Kalambo Falls site in ...

The early humans lived in Africa. ... and could speak using language just as we do today. “Homo sapiens” means “wise humans”. Later in the Stone Age, around 60,000 years ago, ...

Early humans survived in a range of extreme environments before ... Earlier theories held that Stone Age humans might have made a single important technological advance or developed a new way ...