Archaeologists working in eastern England say they have found the earliest known traces of humans deliberately kindling fire, ...

Understanding this crucial point in human history has focused on the Dmanisi Hominid Archaeological Site in Georgia where ...

Starting a fire led to advancements such as cooking, which unlocked nutrients that improved the size and cognition of the ...

A research team at the British Museum, led by Nick Ashton and Rob Davis, reports evidence that ancient humans could make and ...

The oldest previously known funeral pyre in the world was discovered in Alaska and dates to approximately 11,500 years ago, but that cremation involved a young child rather than an adult. Some burned ...

A fascinating archaeological discovery in South Africa has revealed that humans were using sophisticated poisoned arrows 60,000 years ago, far earlier than previously documented. Chemical analysis of ...

Behind the daily stream of geopolitical tensions and conflicts, 2025 also offered new perspectives on humanity’s connection ...

A tiny bird figurine discovered in a refuse heap in the Henan province of China is changing what historians thought they knew ...

Using 3D technology and other methods, the team identified Sahelanthropus’s femoral tubercle, which is the point of ...

This has been quite the wild year in human evolution stories. Our relatives, living and extinct, got a lot of attention—from ...

Fresh findings about arm and leg bones advance the debate over whether Sahelanthropus tchadensis was bipedal, but not ...

The oldest known cremation pyre in Africa is shedding light on the complex funeral rites of ancient hunter-gatherers 9,500 years ago.