Homo habilis was thought to be the first hominin to use stone tools for hunting and processing meat, but they might have been prey instead of predators.

Early humans were not the feared masters of the savanna long imagined. On the contrary, some still served as meals for big ...

What did early humans like to eat? The answer, according to a team of archaeologists in Argentina, is extinct megafauna, such ...

A new study may be about to rewrite a part of our early human history. It has long been thought that Homo habilis, often considered the first true human species, was the one to turn the tables on the ...

Airborne lasers have revealed four long, low dry-stone structures on the Karst Plateau in Italy and Slovenia. The team that discovered them believes the walls were used to herd wild animals for easier ...

Digital reconstruction of a crushed skull from an ancient human could rewrite the timeline of human evolution, according to ...

In the 1990s, archaeologists working near the German town of Schöningen made a remarkable find: a set of well-preserved wooden spears crafted from spruce and pine, along with stone tools and 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 ...