Used by our early human ancestors around 430,000 years ago, the earliest known hand-held wooden tools have been uncovered by ...

The fingers of one of the hands were "retouched to become pointed like claws," the study's co-author said.

That makes Liang Metanduno the home of the oldest known artwork in the world, beating the previous contender (a Neanderthal ...

Footprints dating back 800,000 years have been uncovered on a beach in Norfolk, England, offering one of the oldest direct ...

An ancient DNA analysis of a 5,500-year-old human skeleton reveals that an ancestor of the bacterium that causes syphilis was ...

This discovery challenges the notion that abstract and symbolic thinking began only 40,000 years ago.

The finding, along with the discovery of a 500,000-year-old hammer made of bone, indicates that our human ancestors were ...