Gary Todd / Wikimedia Commons / Public domain Archaeologists have uncovered evidence of a 13,500-year-old human settlement in Saudi Arabia, revealing that ancient communities lived in the deserts of ...

New findings suggest humans mastered fire far earlier than believed, transforming diets, social life, and survival in ancient ...

The evidence shows that the ‘Ubeidiya site is at least one million nine hundred thousand years old. This finding represents a ...

An ancient elephant bone hammer from southern England reveals that early humans used rare materials to precisely sharpen stone tools, highlighting unexpected technological sophistication 500,000 years ...

Scientists find 60,000-year-old ostrich eggshell carvings follow precise geometric rules, revealing early humans carefully planned designs.

The fossilised bones of our ancestors remain silent. So, how can we possibly imagine what our earliest languages sounded like ...

Symbols and markings carved into tools and figurines by Stone Age humans over 40,000 years ago could be an ancient precursor to writing, according to a new analysis. The marks, found on 260 artifacts ...

This is an extract from Our Human Story, our newsletter about the revolution in archaeology. Sign up to receive it in your inbox every month. When writing headlines for stories about human evolution, ...

An artist’s reconstruction of a Marathousa 1 paleolithic woman producing a digging stick from a small alder tree trunk with a small stone tool. This kind of wood was used for the Marathousa 1 digging ...

Researchers believe they’ve found the earliest known use of hand-held wooden tools in human history. The team points to artifacts from Greece of crafted pieces of alder and either willow or poplar, ...

Artist’s impression of a Stone Age hunter-gatherer manufacturing the oldest known wooden handheld tool. Credit: G. Prieto, K. Harvati. In the shadow of a coal mine in southern Greece, archaeologists ...

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 ...