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

A single ancient jawbone is rewriting what scientists thought they knew about humanity’s forgotten relatives.

Thousands of years before the invention of compasses or sails, prehistoric peoples crossed oceans to reach remote lands like ...

Excavations at an opencast mine in Greece have uncovered two wooden objects more than 400,000 years old that appear to have been fashioned as tools by an unknown species of ancient human ...

This ancient people lived in the Sahara when it was a much more welcoming environment.

Researchers in Australia think the painting - which has been discovered in South East Asia - could tell us more about how ...

Archaeologists spend careers mapping the expected, yet some of the most revealing discoveries arrive where no one thought to look. When a carved human face emerged from a context that should have held ...