Scientists in China discovered that ancient humans were making surprisingly advanced stone tools during a harsh ice age ...

In central China, scientists have spent over a decade excavating and studying an archaeological site where ancient humans ...

The stone tools were found at the Lingjing archaeological site in central China. An early human species called Homo juluensis ...

Humans are the only animal that lives in virtually every possible environment, from rainforests to deserts to tundra.This adaptability is a skill that long predates the modern age. According to a new ...

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Some of the smallest organisms might have influenced our own evolutionary path. A new study has found that the distribution ...

Roughly 476,000 years ago, early human ancestors were already building wooden structures, far earlier than scientists thought ...

Human bones were a sort of social currency during the Late Bronze Age and Early Iron Age in central Europe. The skeletal remains of the deceased were often ripped apart, severed, and dug out of graves ...

New research has revealed that ancient people in southern Arabia dined on an apex predator — sharks. The study, recently published in the journal Antiquity, centers on a tomb in Wadi Nafūn, an ...