Archaeologists say they have found the oldest known instance of fire setting, a key moment in human evolution.

High above the Sea of Galilee, in the soil of a long-vanished village, a tiny clay sculpture has opened a rare view into the minds of people who lived 12,000 years ago. The figurine, small enough to ...

The discovery rewrites the history of interbreeding between Homo sapiens and Neanderthals. In a new study published in the journal l’Anthropologie, scientists have identified the earliest-known ...

Groundbreaking research has revealed the earliest known evidence of human fire-making in the UK, dating back over 400,000 years. This discovery, at a disused clay pit near Barnham, Suffolk, pushes the ...

A 12,000-year-old clay figurine unearthed in northern Israel, depicting a woman and a goose, is the earliest known human-animal interaction figurine. Found at the Late Natufian site of Nahal Ein Gev ...

Archaeologists say they have identified the earliest known evidence of humans making fire, dating to about 400,000 years ago. The discovery suggests early Neanderthal groups in what is now eastern ...

MARDIN/ISTANBUL, 23 July (BelTA - Anadolu) - Archaeologists have uncovered rare artifacts from the Paleolithic era at Ulukoy Cave in Türkiye’s southeastern Mardin province, revealing the earliest ...

The Nyayanga excavation site in Kenya, in July 2025. Fossils and Oldowan tools have been excavated from the tan and reddish-brown sediments, which date to more than 2.6 million years old. T. W.

The oldest distinguishing feature between humans and our ape cousins is our ability to walk on two legs—a trait known as bipedalism. Among mammals, only humans and our ancestors perform this atypical ...