If the researchers' hypothesis is correct, the fossil represents the earliest known instance of an injury caused by something sharp.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Evidence from Sulawesi shows early human relatives crossed deep ocean waters more than a million years ago—centuries before modern ...

Scientists once believed they could pinpoint the moment when humans first appeared. But as new fossils have filled in our evolutionary history, that defining moment has begun to disappear – replaced ...

The objects suggest that humans entered South America thousands of years earlier than previously thought.

The first-ever published research on Tinshemet Cave reveals that Neanderthals and Homo sapiens in the mid-Middle Paleolithic Levant not only coexisted but actively interacted, sharing technology, ...

Researchers believe they’ve found the earliest known use of hand-held wooden tools in human history. The team points to artifacts from Greece of crafted pieces of alder and either willow or poplar, ...