Building the human story based on a few artefacts is tricky – particularly for wooden tools that don’t preserve well, or cave ...

Early humans in England used elephant bone to sharpen stone tools, revealing advanced planning, material knowledge, and ...

The world’s oldest known cave art shows how early humans crossed oceans, offering rare insight into ancient migration routes.

A field in eastern England has revealed evidence of the earliest known instance of humans creating and controlling fire, a significant find that archaeologists say illuminates a dramatic turning point ...

Archaeologists working in eastern England say they have uncovered the earliest known evidence of humans deliberately making fire, pushing the origin of this technology back to roughly 400,000 years ...