If this Africa-wide theory were true, then early humans must have figured out how to live in many environments beyond ...

A newly excavated cave in Israel holds burials and artifacts suggesting that multiple human species commingled and shared ...

Deep in a trench in Tanzania, researchers found dozens of tools crafted from animal bones some 1.5 million years old.

Early humans were regularly using animal bones to make cutting tools 1.5 million years ago. A newly discovered cache of 27 ...

A cache of 1.5 million-year-old bone tools uncovered in Tanzania suggest ancient human ancestors were capable of critical ...

Researchers found evidence humans lived at a site in southern Côte d’Ivoire, a region of present-day rainforest, about 150,000 years ago.

Before this discovery in Tanzania’s Olduvai Gorge, in which CENIEH participated, researchers believed that hominins only ...

“This is true for most Middle Paleolithic sites where early humans lived.” Based on these findings, researchers understood that early humans generally preferred to hunt specific ...

A new study links a particular gene to the origins of spoken language, proposing that a protein variant found only in humans may have helped us develop speech.

For a long time, tool technology was seen as a uniquely human trait, associated with the genus ‘Homo’. Now we know tools go ...

As detailed in a study published ... now need to ask how these early human niche expansions impacted the plants and animals that shared the same niche-space with humans. In other words, how ...

(CNN) – Early Europeans may have eaten their enemies’ brains and bone marrow. In a new study, a team of archaeologists examined the bones of at least 10 people from ancient Magdalenian culture.