Researchers in Italy discovered 400,000-year-old evidence that ancient humans butchered elephants for food and tools. At the ...

During warmer periods of the Middle Pleistocene, ancient humans in Italy were in the habit of butchering elephants for meat ...

Mammoths were not the only enormous beasts ancient humans hunted. Elephant ancestors were also on the menu. While analyzing ...

The authors of a study of the specimen conclude the elephant was butchered using small stones, as indicated by both the ...

Homo habilis was thought to be the first hominin to use stone tools for hunting and processing meat, but they might have been prey instead of predators.

For decades, textbooks painted a dramatic picture of early humans as tool-using hunters who rose quickly to the top of the ...

New research suggests ancient copper smelters accidentally discovered iron, sparking the technological shift that transformed ...

A new find in the Ayvalık region of western Turkey suggests that prehistoric humans somehow "walked" across what is now a ...

Combining techniques such as geoarchaeology, sedimentology, luminescence dating, and lithic analysis, they discovered that ...

A global collaboration led by Sharjah has established the Faya Palaeolandscape as a cornerstone in the study of early human ...