For decades, textbooks painted a dramatic picture of early humans as tool-using hunters who rose quickly to the top of the ...

When scientists found the skull, named Yunxian 2, they assumed it belonged to an earlier ancestor of ours, Homo erectus, the ...

Stone tools are pictured at the site where archaeologists from Australia and Indonesia found artefacts, which scientists say may be evidence of humans living there 1.5 million years ago, in Soppeng ...

Archaeologists in 2023 announced the discovery of the oldest known wooden structure at Kalambo Falls in Zambia. The discovery dates to nearly 476,000 years ago, long before Homo sapiens ever appeared.