For decades, textbooks painted a dramatic picture of early humans as tool-using hunters who rose quickly to the top of the food chain. The tale was that Homo habilis, one of the earliest ...

Scientists examining traces left behind by early humans continue to find evidence that refuses to stay neatly in place. New laboratory work on ancient hunting tools points to decisions made far ...

SHOHAM, Israel — Archaeologists believe they have found one of the oldest burial sites in the world at a cave in Israel, where the well-preserved remains of early humans dating back some 100,000 years ...