A new study suggests the extinction of Neanderthals nearly coincided with a shift in Earth's magnetic field that let more ...

Early human communication networks revealed thanks to ancient stone tools and blades located in a South African cave.

Archaeologists made the discovery in a cave overlooking the ocean on the southern coast of South Africa - that was once ...

Tools from South Africa’s Robberg caves match styles found in Namibia and Lesotho, suggesting early humans shared methods and ...

The team made the daily climb with all their excavation and photography equipment, weighing up to 50 pounds per person.

A team of researchers from the Cleveland Museum of Natural ... tools may have driven early humans to develop their own methods for producing sharp edges. Field investigations in Kenya showed ...

The 20,000-year-old tools, found on the southern coast of South Africa, were made by early humans near the end of the last major Ice Age, experts say. The researchers say the discovery reveals ...

Early humans likely used naturally sharp rocks before making their own tools, a new hypothesis suggests, potentially pushing ...

Modern humans were already living throughout the ... But others, such as anthropologist Robert Martin of Chicago's Field Museum, say the bones belong to small Homo sapiens—perhaps people who ...