The ancestors of humans started making tools about 3.3 million years ago. First they made them out of stone, then they switched to bone as a raw material. Until recently, the earliest clear evidence ...

Researchers say this new discovery in Spain could play a major role in understanding the history of humans in Europe ...

Olduvai Gorge is a Unesco World Heritage site. It became well known in 1959 through the pioneering work of palaeontologists Louis and Mary Leakey, whose discoveries of early human remains reshaped our ...

The researchers suggested that only after using naturally sharp stones for cutting did ancient humans faced selective pressure that led them to start knapping their own stone tools.

Archaeologists in Spain have uncovered what could be the oldest known rock carvings made by humans likely over 200,000 years ...

The spheres, made from volcanic basalt and lapilli, were discovered across eight archaeological sites in Melka Kunture, dated ...

Recent research provides compelling evidence that Middle Paleolithic peoples created deliberate patterns on stone artifacts ...

The intricate cave system perched deep in an isolated stretch of Spanish mountains contained the remains of an ancient and ...

The newly discovered bone tools, which consist of 27 deliberately split and chipped large mammal long bones, were recovered ...

Analysis - Piecing together the story of Europe's earliest settlers is a challenge, largely because relevant human fossils ...

Stone tools recently discovered in Ukraine could potentially rewrite history as the oldest evidence of human presence in ...