In Wonderwerk Cave in South Africa, burned bones were found in a dirt layer associated with Homo erectus. The inhabitants ...

New evidence from South Africa's Wonderwerk Cave suggests early human ancestors were using fire as far back as 1.79 million years ago, researchers say.

Archaeologists working at a cave site in central Israel have recovered five human burials dated to roughly 100,000 years ago, ...

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

How did humans become human? Understanding when, where and in what environmental conditions our early ancestors lived is central to solving the puzzle of human evolution. Unfortunately, pinning down a ...

Early human ancestors during the Old Stone Age were more picky about the rocks they used for making tools than previously known, according to research published Friday. Not only did these early people ...

Evidence from a remote site on Sulawesi reveals that ancient human relatives crossed a deep ocean barrier more than a million years ago. The discovery extends the earliest known human movements in ...

It was a sharp discovery for archaeologists in Kenya. Archeologists have uncovered three-million-year-old tools used by early humans in an area of Africa called “the cradle of humankind.” Kenya’s Homa ...