A new study shows that early humans shifted from hunting giants to smaller animals, shaping tools, survival, and intelligence ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The evidence shows that early hominins returned to the same area again and again between 2.75 and 2.44 million years ago. (CREDIT: ...

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

A study led by the University of Tübingen found that people were deliberately extracting hornfels rocks at the Jojosi site in ...

Evidence from a remote site on Sulawesi reveals that ancient human relatives crossed a deep ocean barrier more than a million years ago. The discovery extends the earliest known human movements in ...

Our prehistoric human ancestors relied on deliberately modified and sharpened stone tools as early as 3.3 million years ago. The selection of rock type depended on how easily the material could be ...

A new study from The Hebrew University of Jerusalem reveals how early humans used fire daily, gathered wood nearby, and lived ...

The story of human evolution may need a rewrite after 2.12-million-year-old tools were found in central China. The most ancient of these tools -- a collection of hammerstones, pointed pieces and ...

The oldest handmade stone tools discovered yet predate any known humans and may have been wielded by an as-yet-unknown species, researchers say. The 3.3-million-year-old stone artifacts are the first ...