New archaeological discoveries are transforming our understanding of early human life in Southeast Asia. Evidence from Mindoro Island reveals that humans living more than 40,000 years ago were far ...

Nearly 800,000 years ago, early humans gathered along the shores of a lush lake in what is now northern Israel. Here, they returned again and again, hunting large animals, cooking fish over controlled ...

Long before stone tools or bones tell their part of the story, footprints can preserve something far more immediate. They capture movement rather than anatomy, recording where an individual walked, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Scientists found that ancient malaria likely shaped migration, isolation and evolution among early human populations in Africa.

Learn how early humans in Israel’s Natufian period used clay ornaments to express identity, share skills, and build social connections before agriculture. Faint fingerprints pressed into tiny clay ...

Learn how archaeologists are using ancient charcoal deposits to understand what life was like for ancient humans 800,000 years ago. The paleolake Hula was a popular destination for early humans living ...