"We have discovered the oldest wooden tools known to date." ...

A groundbreaking archaeological discovery in West Africa is challenging long-held assumptions about early human adaptability and migration. Evidence from a site in Côte d'Ivoire reveals that Homo ...

A 150,000-year-old site in Côte d'Ivoire nearly doubles previous estimates of how long ago humans first lived in rainforests.

A set of burned human bones unearthed in Ethiopia’s Afar Rift may hold the oldest known evidence of cremation, pushing a ...

Scientists have uncovered the oldest known hand-held wooden tools ever used by humans — and they’re an astonishing 430,000 ...

For decades, scientists believed ancient humans avoided dense rainforests, treating them as nearly impossible environments ...

The latest discoveries by an international research team, which includes Academy Research Fellow Ferhat Kaya from the ...

The findings highlight the nuanced ways in which early humans kept themselves well-fed. The latest findings come from the first independent investigation of the Monte Verde site in 50 years—and the ...

Malaria may have shaped early human life across Africa far earlier than once thought, steering where people could safely live ...

New clues about our earliest ancestors suggest they may have reached Eurasia sooner than scientists once thought. Fossils found in Romania hint that hominins left Africa nearly two million years ...