Nearly 800,000 years ago, early humans gathered along the shores of a lush lake in what is now northern Israel. Here, they ...

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

A decline in ancient megafauna in the Middle East coincided with a shift towards smaller, lighter toolkits in the ...

The first Homo sapiens to permanently establish themselves in western Europe may have been carrying some serious heat. Until ...

For decades, textbooks painted a dramatic picture of early humans as tool-using hunters who rose quickly to the top of the food chain. The tale was that Homo habilis, one of the earliest ...

Bones and tools found in a Sri Lankan cave show how Homo sapiens adapted to dense rainforest environments as early as 45,000 years ago. NOVA is available to stream on pbs.org and the free PBS App, ...

A new study challenges traditional views on humanity's shift from hunting and gathering to farming, highlighting early human interactions.

Archaeological evidence from Tanzania suggests early humans were interacting with massive animals far earlier than previously ...

For more than 1 million years, early humans in the Levant region of the eastern Mediterranean used a range of heavy tools, ...