Making fire on demand was a milestone in the lives of our early ancestors. But the question of when that skill first arose ...

At the Paleolithic site of Medzhibozh in Ukraine, archaeologists identified ivory fragments shaped into tools nearly 400,000 ...

Heat-reddened clay, fire-cracked stone, and fragments of pyrite mark where Neanderthals gathered around a campfire 400,000 ...

A new archaeological find pushes back the timeline on when humans mastered the ability to make fires, a transformative technology.

Evidence uncovered in a field in Suffolk, England indicates that ancient humans intentionally harnessed fire more than ...

The human evolutionary tree can be complicated—but understanding where hominids end and hominins begin reveals how we fit ...

From an incredible series of revelations about the ancient humans called Denisovans to surprising discoveries about tool ...

About 50,000 years ago, humanity lost one of its last surviving hominin cousins, Homo floresiensis (also known as "the hobbit ...

With the help of newly identified bones, an enigmatic 3.4-million-year-old hominin foot found in 2009, is assigned to a species different from that of the famous fossil Lucy providing further proof ...

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

A foot fossil found in Ethiopia belonged to an ancient human. The finding could knock one of the most famous names in human evolution from her spot on the family tree.