Thousands of years before the invention of compasses or sails, prehistoric peoples crossed oceans to reach remote lands like ...

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

New evidence has emerged that sheds light on the possible first people to populate the Americas. Dating of stone and ivory ...

Excavations at an opencast mine in Greece have uncovered two wooden objects more than 400,000 years old that appear to have been fashioned as tools by an unknown species of ancient human ...

A single ancient jawbone is rewriting what scientists thought they knew about humanity’s forgotten relatives.

Discovered during excavations at Boxgrove in West Sussex, the ancient hammer is among the oldest elephant bone tools ever ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Set aside your matches or lighter and try to start a fire—chances are you’d be left cold and hungry. But as early as 400,000 years ...

Ancient DNA from southern Africa is rewriting the story of our species, revealing that some early humans in this region lived in deep isolation for roughly 100,000 years and evolved genetic patterns ...

Sixteen years ago a group of anthropologists discovered 3.4-million-year-old fossilized foot bones in Ethiopia. While they suspected the foot belonged to an ancient human that likely lived alongside ...

The world’s oldest known cave art shows how early humans crossed oceans, offering rare insight into ancient migration routes.