The discovery of plague DNA in a 4,000-year-old sheep bone is rewriting the story of one of humanity’s most feared pathogens, ...

“Almost all other monogamous mammals either live in tight family units of just a breeding pair and their offspring, or in ...

New research led by the British Museum has found evidence of the world’s oldest human fire-making activity in Barnham, ...

A groundbreaking discovery reveals that early humans, possibly Neanderthals, were using tools to create fire more than ...

New study reveals that no human society has ever been truly Egalitarian, reshaping how we understand inequality and human social life.

The discovery site at East Farm, Barnham, England lies hidden within a disused clay pit tucked away in the wooded landscape between Thetford and Bury St Edmunds. Professor Nick Ashton from the British ...

The findings, described in the journal Nature, push back the earliest known date for controlled fire-making by roughly ...

Researchers say they’ve uncovered new evidence in present-day England that could reshape our understanding of human evolution ...

A team of researchers led by the British Museum has unearthed the oldest known evidence of fire-making, dating back more than ...

Archaeologists say they have found the oldest known instance of fire setting, a key moment in human evolution.

Archaeologists have found the earliest evidence yet of fire technology — and it was created by Neanderthals in England more ...

For decades, a neat story about human origins has floated through textbooks and documentaries: modern humans emerged in East ...