When a villager in northern Greece broke into a limestone wall and exposed a human skull, he did not just find a fossil, he ...

Early humans may have created fire 400,000 years ago, according to evidence unearthed at an archaeological site in England. Although there is evidence that early humans used natural fire in Africa as ...

Archaeologists have identified what appears to be the earliest clear evidence that ancient humans were not just tending flames but deliberately making fire, pushing a pivotal technological ...

Ailsa Chang speaks with David Braun, an archeologist, about his team's discovery of a site in Kenya that suggests human ancestors built tools continuously much earlier than previously thought. So when ...

Building the human story based on a few artefacts is tricky – particularly for wooden tools that don’t preserve well, or cave ...

It's easy to take for granted that with the flick of a lighter or the turn of a furnace knob, modern humans can conjure flames — cooking food, lighting candles or warming homes. For much of our ...

A 26-ft (8-m) deep excavation in Indonesia has revealed that humans and a hominin species that pre-dates humans used the same cave. The enticing possibility even exists that both species overlapped, ...