In the last decade, archaeologists have learned to read the genetic traces that ancient humans and Neanderthals left not only ...

In a groundbreaking discovery at Kalambo Falls in northern Zambia, archaeologists have uncovered a wooden structure dating back 476,000 years. This finding ...

Long before cities or farms, the earliest humans were standing in a changing northern Kenyan landscape, striking stone to stone with steady hands. Their world was noisy with wind, heat, wildfires, and ...

The Nyayanga excavation site in Kenya, in July 2025. Fossils and Oldowan tools have been excavated from the tan and reddish-brown sediments, which date to more than 2.6 million years old. T. W.

It's easy to take for granted that with the flick of a lighter or the turn of a furnace knob, modern humans can conjure flames — cooking food, lighting candles or warming homes. For much of our ...

For decades, textbooks painted a dramatic picture of early humans as tool-using hunters who rose quickly to the top of the food chain. The tale was that Homo habilis, one of the earliest ...

What did early humans like to eat? The answer, according to a team of archaeologists in Argentina, is extinct megafauna, such as giant sloths and giant armadillos. In a study published in the journal ...

Technology allowed early hominins to navigate instability and led to a life populated by loss and uncertainty. Rivers were important for the above context. Braided channels that moved cobbles into the ...