The ability of the early toolmakers to select high-quality stone, produce sharp flakes, and return to familiar raw-material ...

New research indicates that humans shaped their environments through hunting and controlled use of fire tens of thousands of ...

A 1.78-million-year-old partial elephant skeleton found in Tanzania associated with stone tools may represent the oldest ...

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 ...

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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 ...

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 ...

Continuous landmasses, now submerged, may have made it possible for early humans to cross between present-day Turkiye and Europe, new landmark research of this largely unexplored region reveals. The ...

Some creatures were so colossal, so bizarre, they feel like myths — but they were real. Early humans just missed them, and it's probably a good thing. Senate votes to block tariffs on Canada 10 ...