Archaeologists in China’s Yunnan province unearthed stone tools crafted in a style associated with Neanderthals that hasn’t previously been found in East Asia, study says.

Paranthropus was an ape-like hominin that survived alongside early humans for more than a million years. A fossilised leg ...

Until now, the oldest-known human species in Western Europe was the slender-faced Homo antecessor, dating back around 850,000 ...

Archaeologists have discovered the world’s oldest known bone tools—dated to 1.5 million years ago—at Tanzania’s Olduvai Gorge ...

While the Middle Paleolithic period is viewed as a dynamic time in European and African history, it is commonly considered a ...

Before hominins intentionally chipped stone to make tools, they likely used sharp rocks already shaped by natural forces.

Homo naledi, an extinct relative of modern humans whose brain was one-third the size of ours, buried their dead and engraved ...

Dylan Gaffney, CC BY-SA Interestingly, the first migrants carried with them the genetic legacy of intermarriages between our species, Homo sapiens, and the Denisovans , a now extinct species of ...

The ancestors of humans started making tools about 3.3 million years ago. First they made them out of stone, then they switched to bone as a raw material. Until recently, the earliest clear evidence ...