Osbjorn Pearson In 2012, fossils from a rare Homo habilis skeleton were uncovered along the shores of Lake Turkana in ...

Last August, archaeologists discovered a number of artefacts in Indonesia that could transform theories of early human ...

The oldest physical boat is a canoe from roughly 10,000 years ago, but evidence suggests humans have been using watercraft for at least 50,000 years.

THE island of Sulawesi in Indonesia is the 11th-largest island in the world, just slightly smaller than mainland Britain. It ...

We are getting a clearer sense of where and how often Homo sapiens and Neanderthals interbred, and it turns out the behaviour ...

Archaeologists have found the oldest-known surviving examples of handheld wooden tools.

Fossils dating back 773,000 years from Thomas Quarry I in Morocco shed new light on the shared ancestry of Homo sapiens, Neandertals, and Denisovans. An international team of researchers has ...

Thousands of years before the invention of compasses or sails, prehistoric peoples crossed oceans to reach remote lands like ...

Neanderthals repeatedly returned to the cave to store horned animal skulls, revealing this cultural tradition was transmitted over time.

AN EXTINCT creature has been found trapped into amber after nearly 40 million years. The doomed animal – which came from a ...

Ancient DNA is turning human prehistory into something startlingly intimate. Instead of a clean handoff from one species to another, the last 50,000 years look more like a long, tangled story of ...

A single ancient jawbone is rewriting what scientists thought they knew about humanity’s forgotten relatives.