We almost always associate the ancient human diet with one of excessive meat, with a few berries mixed in here and there. It's mostly true that early humans ate a diet of what they could safely get ...

A research team at the British Museum, led by Nick Ashton and Rob Davis, reports evidence that ancient humans could make and ...

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Research shows that ancient humans used an array of stone tools - known collectively as the Oldowan toolkit - to pound plant material and carve up large prey, such as hippopotamuses, In southwestern ...

Here are 10 major findings about human ancestors and our close ancient relatives that scientists announced in 2025. A handful ...

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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 ...

You may find stick-and-pokes an intense form of tattooing, but the use of needles, safety pins, or other common sharp objects doesn't look quite so rough when you consider that ancient Melanesians ...

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. If I tried to recap all the new fossils, new methods and ...

The study of ancient DNA has revolutionised our understanding of human history, enabling scientists to decipher complex population dynamics over tens of thousands of years. By analysing genetic ...