Used by our early human ancestors around 430,000 years ago, the earliest known hand-held wooden tools have been uncovered by ...

Ancient handprint on Sulawesi cave wall suggests complexity of thought, challenging long-held belief that human intelligence ...

Found in southern Greece, the stick was one of two wooden artifacts that appear to have been shaped intentionally, according ...

The finding, along with the discovery of a 500,000-year-old hammer made of bone, indicates that our human ancestors were ...

The findings represent the oldest complete set of genetic information from this bacterial group and shed light on its ...

An ancient DNA analysis of a 5,500-year-old human skeleton reveals that an ancestor of the bacterium that causes syphilis was ...

The "very rare" find provides an extraordinary glimpse into the ingenuity of early human relatives who lived around half a ...

The fingers of one of the hands were "retouched to become pointed like claws," the study's co-author said.

The cave paintings were discovered by an international team of researchers preserved in limestone caves on one of Sulawesi’s ...

That makes Liang Metanduno the home of the oldest known artwork in the world, beating the previous contender (a Neanderthal ...

A remarkable prehistoric hammer made from elephant bone, dating back nearly half a million years ago, has been uncovered in ...

NEW YORK (AP) — Handprints on cave walls in a largely unexplored area of Indonesia may be the oldest rock art studied so far, ...