Smithsonian Magazine

Could These 400,000-Year-Old Rock Fragments Be the Oldest Known Evidence of Human Fire-Making?

Evidence from a site in southeast England suggests early humans were purposefully and repeatedly igniting blazes roughly ...

Terra Amata site reveals technological flexibility of first humans in Europe

Archaeologist Paula García Medrano, researcher at the Centro Nacional de Investigación sobre la Evolución Humana (CENIEH), ...

This 3.4 Million-Year-Old Foot Changes the Story of Human Origins

New fossils link a strange 3.4-million-year-old foot to Australopithecus deyiremeda, a species that mixed climbing skills ...
The World from PRX

Out of Eden Walk: The origin story of the human species is still being written

National Geographic Explorer Paul Salopek is retracing the path of human migration. More specifically, the scientific ...