Human evolution is not a straight line but a complex branching tree shared with other great apes. This overview explains the ...

Another twist has been added to the puzzling mix that is early human ancestry with evidence that one of the most complete pre ...

A team of archaeologists say that artifacts found in England push back the earliest known date of hominids making fire some 350,000 years.

One of the most significant controversies in the study of human evolution and migration is determining when and by what route the first hominids arrived in Europe from Africa. Recent geological dating ...

An American researcher examining ancient human remains has made a potentially ground-breaking discovery. The expert found a huge number of abnormalities and defects that seem to indicate extensive ...

For decades, textbooks painted a dramatic picture of early humans as tool-using hunters who rose quickly to the top of the food chain. The tale was that Homo habilis, one of the earliest ...

Archaeologists from Australia and Indonesia found the small, chipped tools, used to cut little animals and carve rocks, under the soil in the region of Soppeng in South Sulawesi. Radioactive tracing ...

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Along the ancient banks of a river in what is now northern Israel, scientists have uncovered surprising details about the diets of early humans. The discovery challenges a long-standing belief—that ...

A groundbreaking study led by Bar-Ilan University reveals that starch-rich plants played a central role in the diet of ancient hunter-gatherers. A new archaeological study along the Jordan River, just ...

Three morphological groups of archaeological starches discovered at the Gesher Benot Ya’akov (GBY) site. Credit: Hadar Ahituv et al. Researchers studying ancient settlements near the Jordan River in ...