Imagine the scene, around 3 million years ago in what is now east Africa. By the side of a river, an injured antelope keels ...

The first-ever published research out of Tinshemet Cave indicates the two human species regularly interacted and shared technologies and customs.

Some researchers have also linked Australopithecine anatomy to an, as yet unknown, knuckle-walking common ancestor of humans ... to engage in persistence hunting, unlike later species of the ...

Not knowing exactly when regular meat consumption became part of our ancestors’ diets is a gap in our understanding of human ...

The spheres, made from volcanic basalt and lapilli, were discovered across eight archaeological sites in Melka Kunture, dated ...

In the mountains of Atapuerca, Spain, fragments of a 1.4-million-year-old skull have been discovered. These bones, nicknamed Pink (in reference to Pink Floyd's album "The Dark Side of the ...

Early humans were regularly using animal bones to make cutting tools 1.5 million years ago. A newly discovered cache of 27 carved and ...

This is one of the oldest known human ancestor species ... on the occasional egg or insect but they were not regularly hunting large mammals like Neanderthals did millions of years later.

A groundbreaking fossil discovery at Swartkrans Cave has revealed that an early human ancestor walked upright, providing new insights into its size and vulnerability to predators. A team of ...

A collection of older fossils from early human ancestors was previously found in Georgia, near the crossroads of eastern Europe and Asia. Those are estimated to be 1.8 million years old.

A fragment of a face from a human ancestor is the oldest in Western Europe, according to the results of a new study published this week. The incomplete skull — a section of the left cheek bone ...

The discovery joins other finds — such as a 1.4-million-year-old bone axe from Ethiopia — that suggest the human ancestor Homo erectus often used bones as tools. Tool use is a storied ...