Archaeologists in Britain say they've found the earliest evidence of humans making fires anywhere in the world. The discovery ...

Learn how a digitally reconstructed 1.5-million-year-old fossil from Ethiopia is reshaping ideas about what early human ...

Forget the long-standing stereotype of Neanderthals as lone wanderers or Early Humans as hostile outsiders. A groundbreaking new study has revealed a surprising chapter in human history, suggesting ...

Scientists read ancient DNA from South African hunter gatherers and found a very early human branch that shaped survival ...

Researchers say they’ve uncovered new evidence in present-day England that could reshape our understanding of human evolution ...

Researchers have discovered the earliest known instance of human-created fire, which took place in the east of England 400,000 years ago. The new discovery, in the village of Barnham, pushes the ...

Humans were living in rainforests roughly 150,000 years ago, some 80,000 years earlier than was previously thought—and may have been an important center for early human evolution. This is the ...

A collection of artefacts showing the earliest evidence of early humans intentionally making fire nearly 350,000 years ...

The museum’s groundbreaking Hall of Human Origins centers around the adaptations that set early humans apart Jack Tamisiea What does it mean to be human? This question, deceptively simple and imbued ...

Sites in Africa suggest humans used natural fire over a million years ago, but the discovery at the Palaeolithic site in Barnham evidences the creation and control of fire, which carries huge ...

More than a million years ago, early human relatives crossed an enormous sea to reach the Indonesian island of Sulawesi. The discovery pushes back the record of human migration in Southeast Asia and ...

Oldowan stone tools made from a variety of raw materials sourced more than six miles away from where they were found in southwestern Kenya. In southwestern Kenya more than 2.6 million years ago, ...