When people imagine the earliest human tools, they usually picture weapons. Stone handaxes, sharpened spears and heavy clubs ...
An analysis of ancient human artefacts finds that the container, a simple but critical tool, may have originated 500,000 ...
Around 2.3 million years ago, ancient human species such as Homo rudolfensis and Homo erectus suddenly changed their diets. Using their large brains, these extinct hominins manufactured digging tools ...
A massive eruption 74,000 years ago shook the planet, and archaeologists are using volcanic glass to figure out how humans made it through. Reading time 5 minutes If you were lucky 74,000 years ago, ...
Learn more about humans’ 3-million-year-long relationship with red meat, and how the food that shaped human evolution may now come with a high health and environmental cost in the modern age.
A teenage boy who lived more than 6,000 years ago was able to survive a lion attack and live for several months afterwards, a new study has suggested. The boy, believed to be between 16-18 years old, ...
Where the buffalo once roamed -- The education of a hunter -- Paleoindian hunters and extinct animals -- The North American bison -- The North American pronghorn -- The rocky mountain sheep -- Hunting ...
"Originally published in the United Kingdom in 2007 by Weidenfeld & Nicolson, London"- -T.p. verso. Part I: The discovery of prehistory -- The idea of prehistory -- Mapping the human past: Prehistory ...
The third season of this Apple TV+ natural history docuseries invites viewers to experience life during one of Earth’s most dramatic climatic shifts. Reading time 2 minutes Apple TV+’s Prehistoric ...
Why do humans fear the dark? How can the science of evolutionary biology explain this primitive instinct? Fear of the dark, an instinctual fear relate.