New research into ancient and modern dog skulls shows that our ancestors have been selectively breeding them for thousands of ...
Archaeologists uncovered 430,000-year-old wooden tools in Greece, the oldest ever found, offering new insights into early human technology.
When we think of the world's oldest art, Europe usually comes to mind, with famous cave paintings in France and Spain often ...
A hand stencil on the wall of a cave in Indonesia has become the oldest known rock art in the world, exceeding the ...
The U.S. is once again challenging itself to go to the moon, and this time, NASA and the Trump administration want to ...
Our prehistoric human ancestors relied on deliberately modified and sharpened stone tools as early as 3.3 million years ago. The selection of rock type depended on how easily the material could be ...
Niguss Gitaw Baraki receives funding from the Leakey Foundation and the U.S. National Science Foundation. Dan V. Palcu Rolier's work was supported by NWO Veni grant 212.136, FAPESP grants 2018/20733-6 ...
Stone tools from an ancient riverbed near Canterbury show that early humans occupied southern Britain around 600,000 years ago. The site, linked to Homo heidelbergensis, represents one of the oldest ...
Scientists recently discovered what may be the earliest evidence of deliberate fire-making by humans — and it's far older than scholars previously believed. The study, which was published in the ...
Remarkably, human brains have the ability to accurately perceive and process the real-world size of objects, despite vast differences in distance and perspective. While previous studies have delved ...
Around 400,000 years ago, a band of Neanderthals, or their ancestors, in Britain struck flint with pyrite and built a fire repeatedly in the same spot. Archaeologists studying the site think it is the ...
Set aside your matches or lighter and try to start a fire—chances are you’d be left cold and hungry. But as early as 400,000 years ago, ancient hominins may have had the skills to conjure flame, ...
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