The buried remains of a small child, discovered nearly a century ago in a cave on Israel’s Mount Carmel, are once again at ...

New clues about our earliest ancestors suggest they may have reached Eurasia sooner than scientists once thought. Fossils found in Romania hint that hominins left Africa nearly two million years ...

Scientists read ancient DNA from South African hunter gatherers and found a very early human branch that shaped survival ...

New research shows early humans relied on many plant foods. They ground seeds, cooked roots, and used simple tools long ...

Oldowan stone tools made from a variety of raw materials sourced more than 6 miles away from where they were found in southwestern Kenya. The development of the Oldowan toolkit made it possible for ...

Excavations of Neolithic site in Turkey suggest human settlements more than 12,000 years ago ...

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Archaeologists have uncovered the earliest evidence of bread-making at a site in northeastern Jordan. Dating back some 14,400 years, the discovery shows that ancient hunter-gatherers were making and ...

Several SDSU students are embarking on a week-long research expedition to the Channel Islands with the goal of potentially ...

Oldowan stone tools made from a variety of raw materials sourced more than six miles away from where they were found in southwestern Kenya. In southwestern Kenya more than 2.6 million years ago, ...