The fragmentary facial bones belong to Homo affinis erectus, an esoteric offshoot of our family tree that inhabited Spain ...
Researchers also found additional relics like stone tools made from flint and quartz, as well as animal bones displaying cut ...
The bone tools were created the same way tools were made from stone.
Bones from the hominin, dubbed “Pink” after the rock band Pink Floyd, significantly predate those of a species previously ...
Paranthropus robustus fossils from Swartkrans Cave reveal new insights into their diet, social structure, and survival 2 ...
A cache of 1.5 million-year-old bone tools uncovered in Tanzania suggest ancient human ancestors were capable of critical ...
For decades, anthropologists believed that early hominins—our distant ancestors roaming Africa over a million years ago—had a ...
The study, published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) of the United States, reveals that ...
For decades, scientists have been learning more about the diets of early hominins, particularly their reliance on plants. Yet ...
Now, researchers have uncovered a substantial cache of prehistoric bone tools in the same region dating back 1.5 million years. It's the oldest collection of mass-produced bone tools yet known, ...
A human skull fragment discovered at the Sima del Elefante site at Atapuerca has become the oldest face in Western Europe.
Using dentists' tools, archaeologists painstakingly uncover evidence that Israel’s Tinshemet Cave housed hominins who shared ...