The earliest evidence of deliberate fire-making by humans was discovered at 400,000-year-old site in Barnham, England, ...

Ruins of a prehistoric stone wall submerged off the northwest coast of France may be evidence that a sunken city of legend ...

Scientists discover Bronze Age plague DNA in 4,000-year-old sheep remains, shedding light on how ancient diseases spread ...

It does not look like a breakthrough at first. Just the faint outline of a foot, pressed into what was once soft ground and later hardened by time. No.

Early human ancestors called the LRJ Group lived in Europe for 80 generations, intermingling with Neanderthals, before ...

Earliest evidence of human fire-making found at 400,000-year-old Suffolk site. Researchers led by the British Museum have uncovered what they believe is the earliest known evidence of humans making ...

Archaeologists have discovered the 3,300-year-old cremated remains of at least eight people who were buried in five urns in Scotland. While it's unknown how they died, it was likely during some sort ...

A fossilized human footprint found in southern Chile has been dated to 15,600 years ago, making it the oldest known footprint ...

At Rimrock Draw Rock Shelter in Oregon, archaeologists uncovered stone tools and animal remains dating back more than 18,000 years. Radiocarbon dating of camel and bison teeth confirms human presence ...

Human remains found by three hikers in California in March have been identified as 55-year-old Aaran Sloan Taylor, Nevada ...

Human remains found in a South Carolina lake over the weekend have been confirmed as belonging to 27-year-old Swapnil ...

The textbook version of the "Out of Africa" hypothesis holds that the first human species to leave the continent around 1.8 ...