Used by our early human ancestors around 430,000 years ago, the earliest known hand-held wooden tools have been uncovered by ...

Archaeologists working in southern Greece have identified wooden tools that appear to be the oldest of their kind ever found.

Our prehistoric human ancestors relied on deliberately modified and sharpened stone tools as early as 3.3 million years ago.

A rare Homo habilis skeleton from Kenya reveals how early humans moved, climbed, and adapted more than two million years ago.

The latest discoveries in Central China's Henan province are filling critical gaps in understanding East Asia's role in human ...

Scientists Identify 60,000-Year-Old Discovery That Rewrites Early Human History ...

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 ...

Early humans were not just scavengers. New research shows they actively butchered elephants, transforming survival and social ...