Used by our early human ancestors around 430,000 years ago, the earliest known hand-held wooden tools have been uncovered by ...

New evidence has emerged that sheds light on the possible first people to populate the Americas. Dating of stone and ivory ...

Thousands of years before the invention of compasses or sails, prehistoric peoples crossed oceans to reach remote lands like ...

Excavations at an opencast mine in Greece have uncovered two wooden objects more than 400,000 years old that appear to have been fashioned as tools by an unknown species of ancient human ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Set aside your matches or lighter and try to start a fire—chances are you’d be left cold and hungry. But as early as 400,000 years ...

A single ancient jawbone is rewriting what scientists thought they knew about humanity’s forgotten relatives.

Discovered during excavations at Boxgrove in West Sussex, the ancient hammer is among the oldest elephant bone tools ever ...

Almost 2 million years ago, a young ancient human died beside a spring near a lake in what is now Tanzania, in eastern Africa. After archaeologists uncovered his fossilized bones in 1960, they used ...

Researchers in Australia think the painting - which has been discovered in South East Asia - could tell us more about how ...

A simple stick, shaped by ancient hands roughly 430,000 years ago, is rewriting what researchers thought they knew about ...