Fire helped early humans preserve meat and deter predators, offering a survival advantage long before regular cooking.

For early humans, fire was not a given. In fact, most archaeological sites that date to earlier than 400,000 years ago lack ...

According to the researchers, early humans, who primarily consumed large game, required fire not for cooking, but in order to ...

New Israeli research suggests large game was smoked as early as 1.8 million years ago, a survival strategy that may have ...

In the flicker of those ancient fires — built not for feasting, but for vigilance and smoking meat — Homo erectus paved the ...

Did prehistoric humans know that smoking meat could preserve it and extend its shelf life? Researchers from the Alkow ...

Prof. Ran Barkai holds a segment of an ancient elephant at the La Polledrara site in Italy. Did prehistoric humans know that ...

Fossils discovered beneath the Madura Strait in Indonesia reveal a previously unknown population of Homo erectus inhabiting the submerged Sundaland region. The findings, including over 6,000 ...

Archaeologists have recovered 140,000-year-old Homo erectus bones from an extinct human species on the ocean floor in Southeast Asia, Live Science reported, citing four separate studies published ...

Recent archaeological discoveries in Java provided new insights into the migrations and habitats of Homo erectus, challenging long-held assumptions about this ancient human species. The findings ...

The geo picks were out almost as soon as the Homo naledi fossils were unearthed ... of “funerary caching”, tool-making, cave scratchings and fire point to a Naledi “culture”, rather ...

A 500,000-year-old tool-making workshop, potentially the oldest ... including stone tools crafted by Homo erectus. GURGAON: The discovery — confirmed by the former joint director-general of ...