Archaeologists working in northern Israel have identified a cave on Mount Carmel containing dense layers of Acheulo-Yabrudian ...

Fire was foundational to human evolution—cooking food over a fire eased digestion in early humans and made more energy ...

An analysis of ancient teeth is giving scientists a rare peek into interactions between human relatives hundreds of thousands ...

Fire leaves behind a simple story when it is fresh. Ash settles, bones blacken, wood chars. Over a million years later, that ...

An international team in South Africa has pinned the earliest known use of fire by Homo erectus back to between 1.07 and 1.79 ...

In a South African cave, researchers have found evidence that early human ancestors, perhaps Homo erectus, were carrying fire ...

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 ...

Modern humans who lived close to the equator were found to be more likely to be able to digest bugs, but this ability ...