Early humans weren’t just walking upright—they were climbing trees and crafting stone tools in a surprising blend of ancient ...

Learn more about the ancient footprints found in Greece, which could upend theories on hominin emigration from Africa.

Analysis of early human bone fossils reveals adaptations for climbing trees and manipulating stones millions of years ago.

A large international team of anthropologists, evolutionary theorists, biologists, and historians has identified gender and ...

Analysis of ancient proteins preserved in fossilized tooth enamel reveals insights into the elusive nature of Paranthropus robustus, researchers ...

They've extracted fragments of enamel proteins from the teeth of fossils of the species Paranthropus robustus and used them ...

These newly discovered dates, identified through a new dating method, indicate that the fossils found at the Sterkfontein caves date from the very beginning of the Australopithecine era, rather than ...

After nearly three years of closure due to flooding, the world-renowned Sterkfontein caves—part of South Africa’s Cradle of Humankind—have reopened with an immersive experience that allows visitors to ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Our hands can reveal a lot about how a person has lived – and that’s true for early human ancestors , too. Different activities such as climbing, grasping or hammering place stress ...

This is an extract from Our Human Story, our newsletter about the revolution in archaeology. Sign up to receive it in your inbox every month. Whenever we think about the process of evolution ...

But evidence of when prehistoric people started eating meat has been difficult to find. Australopithecus was a hominin—a human-like mammal—that walked on two legs but had smaller brains than ...