A newly excavated archaeological site in central China is reshaping long-held assumptions about early hominin behavior in ...

Thousands of years before the invention of compasses or sails, prehistoric peoples crossed oceans to reach remote lands like ...

Early hominins in Europe were creating tools from raw materials hundreds of thousands of years before Homo sapiens arrived ...

Old beliefs about early human behavior in East Asia are being challenged by the discovery of a richly-layered archaeological site located in central China. The excavation project at Xigou, led by the ...

The finding, along with the discovery of a 500,000-year-old hammer made of bone, indicates that our human ancestors were ...

“Hundreds of fossils representing over a dozen species of Ardipithecus, Australopithecus, and Homo had been found in the Afar ...

Paranthropus boisei, robustus, and aethiopicus represent a powerful but ultimately extinct branch of human evolution. Known for massive jaws and specialized diets, these hominins evolved alongside ...

In the shadow of a coal mine in southern Greece, archaeologists discovered the oldest known handheld wooden tools ever found.

Finds from Greece and Britain suggest early hominins were shaping wood and bone with far more intention and ingenuity than ...

Archaeologists have found the oldest-known surviving examples of handheld wooden tools.

Stephen has degrees in science (Physics major) and arts (English Literature and the History and Philosophy of Science), as well as a Graduate Diploma in Science Communication. Stephen has degrees in ...

Excavations at an opencast mine in Greece have uncovered two wooden objects more than 400,000 years old that appear to have been fashioned as tools by an unknown species of ancient human ...