Roughly 476,000 years ago, early human ancestors were already building wooden structures, far earlier than scientists thought ...

There is an old adage that goes, "you are what you eat," meaning that the food you consume helps build your body and fuel ...

But for earlier humans, meat consumption appeared to be a critical, yet somewhat poorly understood, contributor to ...

Crystals inside a prehistoric bone rewrote scientists’ estimates of the age of the archaeological site, suggesting that the ...

Archaeologists found 120,000-year-old human footprints in Saudi Arabia, revealing insights into ancient migration and life ...

The stone tools were found at the Lingjing archaeological site in central China. An early human species called Homo juluensis ...

Did prehistoric humans know that smoking meat could preserve it and extend its shelf life? Researchers from the Alkow Department of Archaeology and Ancient Near Eastern Cultures at Tel Aviv University ...

Learn how fossil evidence reveals the repeatable way early humans accessed, processed, and shared meat.

For decades, textbooks painted a dramatic picture of early humans as tool-using hunters who rose quickly to the top of the food chain. The tale was that Homo habilis, one of the earliest ...