Learn how new research challenges the age of Monte Verde and what it means for early human migration in South America.

Human history is not what we thought. Recent discoveries are forcing scientists to push timelines back by thousands-and even tens of thousands-of years. Footprints dated to 23,000 years ago suggest ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Evidence from Sulawesi shows early human relatives crossed deep ocean waters more than a million years ago—centuries before modern ...

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

It's easy to take for granted that with the flick of a lighter or the turn of a furnace knob, modern humans can conjure flames — cooking food, lighting candles or warming homes. For much of our ...

A new study provides a clearer timeline for one of the most significant prehistoric sites worldwide for the study of human evolution. By integrating three advanced dating techniques, researchers have ...

New research that decoded the evolution of mosquitoes’ feeding habits from DNA could shed light on the murky timeline of ...

The earliest known hand-held wooden tools, used by our early human ancestors around 430,000 years ago, have been uncovered by researchers at an archeological site in Greece. One is made from the trunk ...

Oldowan stone tools made from a variety of raw materials sourced more than six miles away from where they were found in southwestern Kenya. In southwestern Kenya more than 2.6 million years ago, ...

More than a million years ago, early human relatives crossed an enormous sea to reach the Indonesian island of Sulawesi. The discovery pushes back the record of human migration in Southeast Asia and ...