Archaeologists in Sharjah have unearthed 80,000-year-old stone tools, revealing a continuous human presence in Arabia ...

In 2010, scientists found the first evidence of another hominin subspecies, known as the Danisovans. Now, they’ve identified ...

A little over 100,000 years ago, groups of prehistoric humans in the Levant suddenly began burying their dead, marking one of the most significant cognitive and behavioral leaps in the history of our ...

The evidence links human presence to Marine Isotope Stage 5a, a period of dramatic environmental shifts when monsoons from ...

A new study from SapienCE reveals that early modern humans at Blombos Cave in South Africa used ochre as a specialized tool ...

Humans are the only animal that lives in virtually every possible environment, from rainforests to deserts to tundra.

Neanderthals have long been the subject of intense scientific debate. This is largely because we still lack clear answers to ...

Europe’s earliest known boomerang, carved from mammoth tusk and over 40,000 years old, reveals advanced skills of early Homo ...

According to a new study published Wednesday in Nature, ancient Homo sapiens developed the flexibility to survive by finding food and other resources in a wide variety of difficult habitats before ...

The ancient boomerang wasn't found alone; it lay alongside a human phalanx—a small bone from either a finger or a toe.

Boomerangs are some of humanity’s oldest tools. In the northernmost region of Australia, 50,000-year-old cave art appears to ...

A mammoth tusk artefact discovered in a Polish cave could be Europe’s earliest example of a boomerang and even the oldest ...