Our species, Homo sapiens, weren’t the first humans to leave Africa—not by a long shot. The remarkable discovery of a 709,000-year-old butchered rhino fossil in the Philippines shows that so ...

At a site in northeastern Uzbekistan, archaeologists have uncovered tiny stone points that appear to be the oldest known ...

A groundbreaking study by researchers from Tel Aviv University tracks the development of early humans' hunting practices over the last 1.5 million years—as reflected in the animals they hunted ...

The early humans of Kammern-Grubgraben While we tend to associate early humans with caves, Austria's Kammern-Grubgraben site is open air, with a highland on one side and a sloping river valley on ...

The fact that both the squirrel and monkey species being hunted were primarily tree-dwelling, the early humans' hunting methods may have included projectiles, like darts and blowpipes.

According to Barkai, early humans began hunting megaherbivores only once they had figured out how to preserve their meat.

A fossil discovery near Pampore, Kashmir, offers a glimpse into how early humans interacted with their environment during the Middle Pleistocene. Nestled in a valley flanked by the towering ...

A famous cache of wooden spear shafts and other hunting tools was once ascribed to a group of early humans that were not known for social organization.

early access: Obtaining resources from a carcass early in the carcass consumption sequence (usually first), whether by hunting or scavenging.

Paleoanthropologists identified the early human based on molars that are several million years old.

Hunting skills may not after all have triggered the tremendous burst of human evolution at the beginning of the ice ages nearly two million years ago. Instead of man the hunter, the driving force ...

A new study tracks the development of early humans' hunting practices over the last 1.5 million years -- as reflected in the animals they hunted and consumed. The researchers claim that at ...