The Âsowanânihk Ancient Indigenous Site is 11,000 years old and holds many educational lessons about early inhabitants.

New archaeological discoveries are transforming our understanding of early human life in Southeast Asia. Evidence from Mindoro Island reveals that humans living more than 40,000 years ago were far ...

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 ...

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 ...

A set of burned human bones unearthed in Ethiopia’s Afar Rift may hold the oldest known evidence of cremation, pushing a ...

Four lifelike reconstructions of prehistoric humans have been unveiled — including a model of a species often dubbed "the hobbit," which, as an adult, was about the same height as a modern 4-year-old.

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In May 2020, a research team announced the exciting results of their study of the largest fossil human footprint site in Africa: Engare Sero, Tanzania. With nearly 400 footprints, these fossilized ...

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. The BBC has released new images showcasing early human species as part ...