Old beliefs about early human behavior in East Asia are being challenged by the discovery of a richly-layered archaeological ...

Learn how two wooden tools discovered in Greece mark the earliest known evidence of humans shaping wood, moving the timeline ...

Long before cities or farms, the earliest humans were standing in a changing northern Kenyan landscape, striking stone to stone with steady hands. Their world was noisy with wind, heat, wildfires, and ...

An archaeological discovery of two artifacts in southern Greece are the oldest known handheld wooden tools fashioned by early human ancestors.

Archaeologists working in southern Greece have identified wooden tools that appear to be the oldest of their kind ever found.

Archaeologists have uncovered the earliest known hand-held wooden tools ever used by humans, and the discovery is changing ...

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 ...

Niguss Gitaw Baraki receives funding from the Leakey Foundation and the U.S. National Science Foundation. Dan V. Palcu Rolier's work was supported by NWO Veni grant 212.136, FAPESP grants 2018/20733-6 ...