Understanding what the environment looked like millions of years ago is essential for piecing together how our earliest ...

Venus figurines, with exaggerated sexual characteristics such as big hips and breasts, began appearing about 40,000 years ago ...

Using artificial intelligence, archaeologists found evidence of controlled fire in Israel’s Evron Quarry—dating back one ...

A recent study proposes a new paradigm for understanding the role of carrion in the subsistence of human populations ...

New fossil evidence from Ethiopia’s Afar region reveals that early humans evolved nearly two million years ago, hundreds of ...

A 4.4-million-year-old Ardipithecus fossil named "Ardi" shows early humans walked upright, keeping ape-like climbing ...

A new documentary puts viewers in the shoes of Neanderthals and early humans, giving an intimate glimpse into humans’ ...

The computer modeling revealed that prehistoric humans influenced European landscapes through two primary mechanisms: deliberate burning of trees and shrubs to create more open habitats, and hunting ...

NASA stacked the Artemis II Orion spacecraft atop the Space Launch System rocket at Kennedy Space Center this week ahead of ...

Lead exposure is not good for us, but thanks to a single gene in our brains, it was apparently even worse for our Neanderthal ...

After comparing shapes, depths, and pressure patterns, this study found that two different hominin species left footprints in ...