A study in a cave in northern Israel suggests that pre-Neanderthal human groups were already using advanced tools, fire, and ...

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Scientists used to believe early humans largely stayed away from Africa's dense tropical rainforests. However, a new discovery in present-day Côte d'Ivoire suggests that Homo sapiens were living in ...

Before weapons, cities, or organized defense, early humans lived in a world where predators dominated the landscape. Large cats, pack hunters, and other deadly animals posed a constant threat to ...

An artist's depiction of what life might have been like for early humans living on South Africa's Paleo-Agulhas Plain. Credit: Maggie Newman/African Centre for Coastal Paleosciences An artist's ...

In the dry storytelling of palaeontology, certain discoveries tend to arrive with a kind of quiet disruption. Not the sort that rewrites textbooks overnight, but one that shifts the edges of what was ...

The paleo diet popularized the image of a meat-based caveman-style diet, but that image is far from the archaeological truth. According to scientific research about what hominins and early humans ate, ...