Early humans were quarrying stone as far back as 220,000 years ago, revealing surprisingly advanced planning and resource use.

A new study shows that early humans shifted from hunting giants to smaller animals, shaping tools, survival, and intelligence ...

Clay ornaments created 15,000 years ago show that symbolic expression began before agriculture. Evidence suggests both children and adults participated, highlighting early social and cultural ...

A decline in ancient megafauna in the Middle East coincided with a shift towards smaller, lighter toolkits in the ...

Until now, it had been largely assumed that these hunter-gatherer groups killed their prey with darts launched by spear-throwers, but new ballistic experiments indicate that bows and arrows may ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Our prehistoric human ancestors relied on deliberately modified and sharpened stone tools as early as 3.3 million years ago. The ...

Where Did Humans Really Come From: For decades, we’ve been taught that human life began in East Africa. But a groundbreaking ...

Scientists reconstructed the face of a prehistoric human using a 16,000-year-old skull in southern China offering clues about early human life ...

A new study reveals early humans deliberately quarried stone for tools 220,000 years ago, showing advanced planning far ...

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For more than 1 million years, early humans in the Levant region of the eastern Mediterranean used a range of heavy tools, ...

A study led by the University of Tübingen found that people were deliberately extracting hornfels rocks at the Jojosi site in ...