The study, published in the journal Nature, is based on a years-long examination of a reddish patch of sediment excavated at ...

The oldest evidence for human ancestors using fire, dating back to between 1 million and 1.5 million years ago, comes from a ...

A team of scientists led by the British Museum have unearthed the earliest known evidence of fire making, dating back over 400,000 years, in a field in Suffolk.

Researchers say they’ve uncovered new evidence in present-day England that could reshape our understanding of human evolution ...

Nowadays archaeologists guess that ancient humans first entered the Americas as long as 24,000 years ago, perhaps via a sea ...

Scientists revealed Wednesday that they have uncovered evidence in the U.K. of humans intentionally making fire 400,000 years ...

Archaeologists have discovered what may be the earliest evidence of deliberate fire-making.

Newly described wormlike fossils dating back over half a billion years might be our oldest ancestors, and researchers have mapped and visualized the physical structure of the microscopic communities ...

The study bolsters one hypothesis of when people arrived at the landmass that became Australia and other islands, and ...

When archaeologists unearthed small cat bones in China dating back some 5,400 years, they figured cats had been hanging out in early Chinese farming settlements since the Neolithic Period.

New evidence suggests that alcohol was a surprisingly big motivator in our monumental transition from hunting and gathering ...