The move from hunting and gathering to farming changed human life forever. It shaped how we live, eat, work, and organize our communities. But how exactly this shift happened across regions like ...

The Colorado Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on Friday announced the remains to be that of Edna Quintana who was last known to ...

When the archaeologists dated the boomerang in Poland, it was dated to 30,000 years ago. In the same area, a human thumb bone ...

This 44,000­-year-­old hunting scene in Sulawesi, Indonesia, is one of the oldest surviving works of pictorial art. Discoveries of new hominins in Asia have led experts to revisit early human ...

Scientists have discovered what may be one of the oldest boomerangs in the world, hidden in a Polish cave for tens of ...

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

Long before ships sailed the oceans or factories hunted whales for oil, humans living near the Bay of Biscay were already ...

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

Scientists have found genetic evidence of an ancient group of people in Colombia with no modern-day descendants. It’s as if ...

The shift from lizard-like sprawl to upright walking in mammals wasn’t a smooth climb up the evolutionary ladder. Instead, it ...

Evidence indicates that early humans may have harnessed fire as far back as 1.8 million years ago — likely to keep predators at bay and to smoke meat in order to preserve it. Offering a rare ...

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