Artistic representations of ancient humans often show large men with bulging muscles – but our ancestors were actually ...

In Wonderwerk Cave in South Africa, burned bones were found in a dirt layer associated with Homo erectus. The inhabitants probably hadn't mastered fire-making, but researchers say they may have moved ...

All modern humans may descend from a small group of people who survived a catastrophic event just over 70,000 years ago.

A massive eruption 74,000 years ago shook the planet, and archaeologists are using volcanic glass to figure out how humans made it through. Reading time 5 minutes If you were lucky 74,000 years ago, ...

Chimpanzees showed a remarkable attraction to crystals, choosing them over ordinary stones and studying them with intense ...

Discoveries at a Üçağızlı II cave in southern Turkey suggest that Neanderthals and Homo sapiens made similar tools, hunted ...

Scientists have found wolf remains, thousands of years old, on a small, isolated island in the Baltic Sea—a place where the animals could only have been brought by humans. The study, published in ...

In 1879, a landowner and amateur archaeologist named Marcelino Sanz de Sautuola ventured into a newly discovered cave system in northern Spain. Hoping to find prehistoric tools, he kept his eyes fixed ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Ancient humans didn't spend as much time on survival activities as we might think. But the reality is that jobs as we know ...

In a remote region of Brazil, archaeologists have unearthed rock art dating back approximately 9,000 years, which intriguingly depicts scenes that seem to reference dinosaurs. Found alongside ancient ...