Paranthropus was an ape-like hominin that survived alongside early humans for more than a million years. A fossilised leg ...

A new study by Dr. Margherita Mussi, published in Quaternary International, highlights how naturally occurring basalt spheres ...

Researchers found European-style Quina tools in China, dating back 55,000 years, challenging the view that East Asia’s Middle ...

Before hominins intentionally chipped stone to make tools, they likely used sharp rocks already shaped by natural forces.

Archaeologists in China’s Yunnan province unearthed stone tools crafted in a style associated with Neanderthals that hasn’t ...

Archaeologists have dug up a collection of mass-produced bone tools, the earliest ever discovered, suggesting that hominins systematically made tools out of bone around 1 million years earlier than ...

U-M expert explains archaeological significance of small African country, a vital source of freshwater and crucial to the study of biodiversity A ...

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

A multidisciplinary study led by researchers from the Institute of Tibetan Plateau Research of the Chinese Academy of ...

A cache of 1.5 million-year-old bone tools uncovered in Tanzania suggest ancient human ancestors were capable of critical thinking and advanced craftsmanship.