One of the most fascinating periods in the evolution of the human lineage is the appearance of the first ancestors capable of ...

Archaeologists have discovered that prehistoric humans butchered an unusual species of elephant 300,000-400,000 years ago.

Remarkably preserved footprints of Homo erectus and Paranthropus boisei offer direct evidence that extinct hominin species ...

Muddy footprints left on a Kenyan lakeside suggest two of our early human ancestors were neighbors some 1.5 million years ago ...

The footprints are the first clear evidence that the two hominin species shared a habitat, raising questions about whether ...

Wyoming archaeologists found 13,000-year-old eyed needles used to make garments at a prehistoric site, in a significant (and ...

On Libya’s Messak Settafet plateau, Cretaceous sandstone tells a dual story: modern oil field operations and remnants of ...

Ice Age humans in what is now Wyoming used bones from hares, bobcats, and mountain lions to craft sewing needles, new research suggests.

The Académie française defined “yellow” (jaune) as an appropriate word to use to describe people of certain races.

The famous early human is still providing lessons to anthropologists about prehistoric Earth and its inhabitants ...

The discovery of a finger bone in a cave in Siberia some 15 years ago kicked off a race to unravel the mysteries of an ...

Lucy may be the best-known prehuman fossil in the world. But other famous fossils have given us important insight into our ...