New research shows early humans relied on many plant foods. They ground seeds, cooked roots, and used simple tools long ...

Researchers uncovered rare azurite traces on a Final Paleolithic artifact, overturning assumptions that early Europeans used ...

Archaeologists have found the earliest evidence yet of fire technology — and it was created by Neanderthals in England more ...

Archaeologists found flint, iron pyrite to strike it and sediments where a fire was probably built several times at an ...

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

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

A tiny prehistoric bird from the early Cretaceous has turned into one of the strangest death scenes in the fossil record, its ...