Building the human story based on a few artefacts is tricky – particularly for wooden tools that don’t preserve well, or cave ...

We are getting a clearer sense of where and how often Homo sapiens and Neanderthals interbred, and it turns out the behaviour ...

State human services officials told lawmakers Thursday they plan to rework a major consolidation of early childhood governing ...

Before weapons, cities, or organized defense, early humans lived in a world where predators dominated the landscape. Large ...

A fossil jaw found in Ethiopia shows Paranthropus ranged far north, challenging long-held ideas about early human relatives ...

Archaeology and paleontology are filled with discoveries that solve one mystery while creating several more. One of the most puzzling finds involved ancient human remains discovered inside a cave ...

Fossils from a Moroccan cave have been dated with remarkable accuracy to about 773,000 years ago, thanks to a magnetic ...

A new study challenges the idea that climate change drove early human innovation. Instead, researchers find that cultural developments arose under different environmental conditions, shaped by ...

Archaeologists in central China have uncovered evidence that early humans were far more inventive than long assumed. Excavations at the Xigou site reveal advanced stone tools, including the earliest ...

Our prehistoric human ancestors relied on deliberately modified and sharpened stone tools as early as 3.3 million years ago. The selection of rock type depended on how easily the material could be ...

The Iowa Health and Human Services Department shifted its proposal to eliminate locally controlled boards in favor of more centralized control - creating a combination of the two.

A single ancient jawbone is rewriting what scientists thought they knew about humanity’s forgotten relatives.