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

Scientists recently discovered what may be the earliest evidence of deliberate fire-making by humans — and it’s far older than scholars previously believed.

A 1.6-million-year-old Ethiopian skull blends ancestor and descendant features, rewriting the origin story of Homo erectus.

Archaeologists working in eastern England say they have uncovered the earliest known evidence of humans deliberately making ...

Digital reconstruction of a crushed skull from an ancient human relative could rewrite the timeline of human evolution, researchers said. A cranium dubbed Yunxian 2 was found in the Yunxian region of ...