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

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

For decades, textbooks painted a dramatic picture of early humans as tool-using hunters who rose quickly to the top of the food chain. The tale was that Homo habilis, one of the earliest ...

The first Homo sapiens to permanently establish themselves in western Europe may have been carrying some serious heat. Until ...

A new study challenges traditional views on humanity's shift from hunting and gathering to farming, highlighting early human interactions.