In 1975, a skinny Hampshire College kid making his first movie, a documentary about rural life in the early 1800s, hauled his ...

The site sits within sediments that record major environmental upheaval in East Africa during the late Pliocene. Around 3.44 ...

Initial inquiries by a national taskforce suggest available lines of inquiry were not pursued in some sex abuse gang cases. | ...

Learn how early hominins crafted the same sharp-edged Oldowan tools through 300,000 years of climate change, revealing one of ...

Scientists have made a significant breakthrough in the study of the first humans on Earth, who lived approximately 2.75 ...

Tools recovered from three sedimentary layers in Kenya show continuous tool use spanning from 2.75 to 2.44 million years ago in the face of environmental changes.

Researchers uncovered a 2.75–2.44 million-year-old site in Kenya showing that early humans maintained stone tool traditions for nearly 300,000 years despite extreme climate swings. The tools, ...

Imagine early humans meticulously crafting stone tools for nearly 300,000 years, all while contending with recurring ...

Different histories of contact with Denisovans in East Asia: While the ancestors of mainland East Asians met Denisovans ...

Stone tools reveal that the First Americans followed a coastal route from East Asia, linking both sides of the Pacific during the Ice Age.

From prehistoric burials to overcrowded Victorian churchyards, this is what our treatment of the dead throughout history says about the living ...

For decades, Paranthropus robustus has intrigued scientists as a powerful, big-jawed cousin of early humans. Now, thanks to ancient protein analysis, researchers have cracked open new secrets hidden ...