Prehistoric humans in Africa may have avoided areas infested with malaria-spreading mosquitoes, a new study suggests.

Archaeologists found 120,000-year-old human footprints in Saudi Arabia, revealing insights into ancient migration and life ...

Learn how archaeologists are using ancient charcoal deposits to understand what life was like for ancient humans 800,000 ...

The study of ancient cultures around Ethiopia during the Middle Stone Age (MSA) time period is important for understanding how some of the first Homo sapiens lived and eventually left Africa.

A new study shows that early humans shifted from hunting giants to smaller animals, shaping tools, survival, and intelligence.

Teeth are like tiny biological time capsules. They tell stories about ancient diets and environments long after their owners ...

The paleo diet popularized the image of a meat-based caveman-style diet, but that image is far from the archaeological truth. According to scientific research about what hominins and early humans ate, ...

Through fossilized tooth enamel, scientists are reconstructing the diets of humans’ early ancestors and landscapes that existed millions of years ago. We really are what we eat, finds associate ...