A study confirms that Homo erectus, the direct ancestor of modern humans, arrived hundreds of thousands of years earlier than ...

Team redates prehistoric ‘Ubeidiya in Jordan Valley to same age as oldest Georgian site, suggesting at least two distinct ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Evidence from Sulawesi shows early human relatives crossed deep ocean waters more than a million years ago—centuries before modern ...

A groundbreaking study published in October 2025 has proposed a new perspective on the early inhabitants of Australia, suggesting that they were not just passive settlers but active fossil hunters.

A 1.5-million-year-old fossil from Gona, Ethiopia reveals new details about the first hominin species to disperse from Africa. Summary: Virtual reassembly of teeth and fossil bone fragments reveals a ...

Issued by: The Center for the Study of the First Americans, Texas A&M University. The interdisciplinary and international journal of the Center for the Study of the First Americans focuses on the ...

A hand stencil on the wall of a cave in Indonesia has become the oldest known rock art in the world, exceeding the archaeologists’ previous discovery in the same region by 15,000 years or more. An ...

A newly reconstructed 1.5-million-year-old fossil from Ethiopia is offering rare insight into the earliest migrations of ancient human ancestors — and a Southern Connecticut State University ...

New research along Turkey’s Ayvalık coast reveals a once-submerged land bridge that may have helped early humans cross from Anatolia into Europe. Archaeologists uncovered 138 Paleolithic tools across ...

Reference map showing natural features cited, cities, and known routes connecting the Nile River, Foul Bay, Gulf of Suez, Red Sea, and Mediterranean Sea throughout history. Credit: Dobson et al ...