Homo antecessor fossils suggested that these early humans ate their young. New findings suggest that they also ate adults.

Complex prehistoric tools unearthed at an archaeological site in central China are upending long-standing assumptions about human evolution, scientists claim in a new study. Excavations at the Xigou ...

Kermanshah is one of the oldest known areas of human settlement in the Iranian Plateau and West Asia, with archaeological ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Paleoanthropologist Yohannes Haile-Selassie and field assistant Ali Kadir look at a hominin fossil specimen found in the Afar Rift ...

A team of archaeologists has uncovered compelling evidence of prehistoric human habitation in caves and rockshelters within ...

HUBEI, China (WKRC/CNN Newsource) - The reexamination of a prehistoric skull led researchers to believe that humanity may have began 400,000 years earlier than previously thought. A badly crushed ...

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They also found that its ancient median eye lives on today as the pineal gland, which helps synchronise our sleep with daylight. Humans and every other vertebrate may share an astonishingly strange ...

Tracking the origin and evolution of human populations in Arabia / Jeffrey I. Rose and Michael D. Petraglia -- The Red Sea, coastal landscapes, and hominin dispersals / Geoff Bailey -- Pleistocene ...

For decades, archaeologists believed that while early humans had learned to control naturally occurring fires more than a ...

Discover the oldest known weapon in history through archaeological finds that illuminate ancient human life and technological evolution.