A new study shows that early humans shifted from hunting giants to smaller animals, shaping tools, survival, and intelligence ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Our prehistoric human ancestors relied on deliberately modified and sharpened stone tools as early as 3.3 million years ago. The ...

Early humans were quarrying stone in southern Africa over 200,000 years ago, reveals new research. People quarried rocks for ...

A decline in ancient megafauna in the Middle East coincided with a shift towards smaller, lighter toolkits in the ...

For decades, textbooks painted a dramatic picture of early humans as tool-using hunters who rose quickly to the top of the food chain. The tale was that Homo habilis, one of the earliest ...

For more than 1 million years, early humans in the Levant region of the eastern Mediterranean used a range of heavy tools, ...

Learn how archaeologists exploring Wogan Cavern uncovered a once-in-a-lifetime find beneath a Welsh castle, revealing Ice Age ...

More than a million years ago, early human relatives crossed an enormous sea to reach the Indonesian island of Sulawesi. The discovery pushes back the record of human migration in Southeast Asia and ...

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 ...