A geneticist affiliated with Harvard Medical School and the Broad Institute has proposed that Neanderthals did not evolve ...

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 ...

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 ...

Early humans in North and South America relied heavily on hunting of large mammals, including mammoths and giant ground sloths, for food and sustenance, according to newly published research by a team ...

One spring, after a long winter, an aged elephant lay dying at the bank of a small stream near the coast of what is now northern Italy. Soon after, some scavengers arrived to dine on this huge ...

Humans are the only animal that lives in virtually every possible environment, from rainforests to deserts to tundra. "Our superpower is that we are ecosystem generalists," said Eleanor Scerri, an ...

The two different species, our ancestors, even collected the same seashells - suggesting a cultural exchange that crossed the ...

SHOHAM, Israel — Archaeologists believe they have found one of the oldest burial sites in the world at a cave in Israel, where the well-preserved remains of early humans dating back some 100,000 years ...

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 ...

A new study suggests early humans were using fire in South Africa’s Wonderwerk Cave as far back as 1.79 million years ago. Researchers found burned bones deep inside the cave, where natural wildfires ...