Old beliefs about early human behavior in East Asia are being challenged by the discovery of a richly-layered archaeological ...

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

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 ...

Researchers believe the ancient wood, found in Greece, is actually evidence of the earliest hand-held wooden tool usage in ...

Used by our early human ancestors around 430,000 years ago, the earliest known hand-held wooden tools have been uncovered by ...

Some think the rise of C-sections means that one day all births will require serious medical intervention. But a surprising new understanding of the pelvis suggests a different story ...

Every step you take depends on a structure most people rarely think about. The pelvis sits at the center of the body and ...

At some point in the deep past, humans may have come frighteningly close to disappearing altogether. Here’s what we know, ...

An international team has discovered the earliest known hand-held wooden tools used by humans. A study jointly led by ...

A newly excavated archaeological site in central China is reshaping long-held assumptions about early hominin behavior in ...

A rare fossil discovery in Ethiopia has pushed the known range of Paranthropus hundreds of miles farther north than ever before. The 2.6-million-year-old jaw suggests this ancient relative of humans ...

For a long time, most scientists believed that early human hunter-gatherer societies were mostly equal, with little hierarchy or leadership, and that strong inequalities only emerged later with ...