“There’s nothing more beautiful to me than a pit full of musicians,” violinist Sarah Darling remarked to me as she took her ...

A new study suggests that bedbugs were the first urban pest, and their population thrived in that environment. For the bloodsucking insects, it’s been the perfect 13,000-year-long marriage.

“For early humans, fire use was not a given, and at most archaeological sites dated earlier than 400,000 years ago, there is no evidence of the use of fire. Nevertheless, at a number of early sites, ...

New clues about our earliest ancestors suggest they may have reached Eurasia sooner than scientists once thought. Fossils found in Romania hint that hominins left Africa nearly two million years ...

Instead, new findings show that plants, especially starchy ones, played a big role in early human diets nearly 800,000 years ago. The discovery came from basalt tools found at a site near an ...

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This video will see us look at the creation of physical weapons by the hands of early humans, as well as how they were used. It is a journey that will see us travel back thousands of years.

After reinvestigating a site in modern-day Côte d’Ivoire, an international team of researchers claims that humans (Homo sapiens) began living in rainforests as early as 150,000 years ago—tens ...

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Early humans may have played a significant role in the demise of one of the most iconic ancient species -- the woolly mammoth -- and others like it, scientists say.

The extinction rate of these animals increased fivefold when early humans evolved around 1.8 million years ago, the study concludes, and rose even higher when modern humans appeared.

According to the team, this fits with the other findings that indicate an early human presence in the Americas over 20,000 years ago. [Related: A new armadillo species was hiding in plain sight .] ...