Learn more about Cave 338 and the artifacts researchers discovered inside of if, which indicate it was a valuable meeting ...

Learn how fossil evidence reveals the repeatable way early humans accessed, processed, and shared meat.

A decline in ancient megafauna in the Middle East coincided with a shift towards smaller, lighter toolkits in the ...

Early human ancestors during the Old Stone Age were more picky about the rocks they used for making tools than previously known, according to research published Friday. Not only did these early people ...

Long before humans spread across the globe, a deadly disease may have quietly shaped where our ancestors lived—and even how we evolved. New research reveals that malaria didn’t just threaten early ...

The peopling of South America has long been debated, with various routes proposed for how they spread across the subcontinent ...

NEW YORK (AP) — For decades, the strongest evidence for the earliest human settlement in the Americas came from a site in Chile called Monte Verde. Scientists found echoes of human presence dating ...

Recent fossil discoveries lend credence to the fascinating proposition that non-human species may have coexisted alongside our early human forebears. These unearthed remnants provide a glimpse into ...

Using a different approach, these researchers say that mosquito-borne malaria may have been a powerful sculptor of where ...

Photo provided to China Daily] High on a cliff in Lushan county of Pingdingshan city, Central China's Henan province, a small ...

Teeth are like tiny biological time capsules. They tell stories about ancient diets and environments long after their owners ...