Research uncovers early humans' reliance on plant-based foods, revealing ancient tools and 780,000-year-old starch grains.

A new archaeological study, conducted along the Jordan River banks south of northern Israel’s Hula Valley, offers a fresh ...

Once they had thought the development of a large brain or the making and use of stone tools was the pivotal early evolutionary innovation setting human ancestors, the hominids, apart from the apes.

A new archeaological study reveals that ancient human diets were more diverse than previously thought, challenging the ...

Israeli researchers discover 780,000-year-old evidence of plant food processing at archaeological site, suggesting early ...

We now understand that early hominids gathered a wide variety of plants ... This discovery opens a new chapter in the study of early human diets and their profound connection to plant-based ...

New research challenges the carnivore diet myth, revealing that early humans relied heavily on plant-based foods for energy.

An archeological discovery sheds new light on prehistoric cooking and raises questions as to the validity of the basis of ...

Humans once had a way smaller footprint ... The challenge of studying early hominids is that specimens from that period are scarce and in rough shape. "Ancient DNA samples are very often poor ...

Finding that hominids were hunted also implies that humans evolved with a prey mind-set, living in fear and constantly seeking protection. Anthropologists now believe that early humans spent many ...