Analysis by British archaeologist Steven Mithen suggests that early humans first developed rudimentary language around 1.6 million years ago – somewhere in eastern or southern Africa. “Humanity’s ...

Written by one of the pioneers of the field, this is the first book to explain how speech and gesture evolved together into a system that all humans possess. Nearly all theorizing about the origins of ...

An archaeologist argues that language gradually evolved after humans uttered their first rudimentary words around 1.6 million years ago, Knewz.com has learned. Language is said to have begun between ...