A 1.9 million-year-old discovery in Jordan reveals new insights into early human migration.

The people who lived on this plateau for more than 700 years did not leave behind ruins that feel distant or decorative. They left a presence. Every wall, alcove, and doorway carries the weight of ...

A 10,000-year-old Turkey settlement discovered at Şika Rika 5 is reshaping what researchers know about early human ...

Archaeologists in Russia have uncovered the remains of a roughly 6,000-year-old board game that could represent an ancestor of chess.

Mushrooms have been used by ancient humans for millennia, but archaeologists have only just uncovered their pivotal role in ...

The evidence shows that the ‘Ubeidiya site is at least one million nine hundred thousand years old. This finding represents a ...

Notably, a painting discovered in the Dundebrak Cave in Altay city, dating back around 12,000 years, features a group of ...

In the collections of the Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology at the University of Cambridge is a small copper-alloy tool from a cemetery at Badari in Upper Egypt. It is just 63 millimeters long ...

An ancient elephant bone hammer from southern England reveals that early humans used rare materials to precisely sharpen stone tools, highlighting unexpected technological sophistication 500,000 years ...

SPRINGFIELD, Mo. — An ancient quarry site in Newton County offers evidence that humans removed chert for stone tools, spear points and arrow points from bedrock centuries earlier than archaeologists ...

This is an extract from Our Human Story, our newsletter about the revolution in archaeology. Sign up to receive it in your inbox every month. When writing headlines for stories about human evolution, ...

Archaeologists uncovered what they believe are the oldest wooden tools ever discovered — dating back hundreds of thousands of years, according to a new study. The tools were found in Greece’s ...