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

Until now, the oldest-known human species in Western Europe was the slender-faced Homo antecessor, dating back around 850,000 ...

Archaeologists have discovered the world’s oldest known bone tools—dated to 1.5 million years ago—at Tanzania’s Olduvai Gorge ...

While the Middle Paleolithic period is viewed as a dynamic time in European and African history, it is commonly considered a ...

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

Sharp stone technology chipped over three million years allowed early humans to exploit animal and plant food resources. But how did the production of stone tools -- called 'knapping' -- start?

Dylan Gaffney, CC BY-SA Interestingly, the first migrants carried with them the genetic legacy of intermarriages between our species, Homo sapiens, and the Denisovans , a now extinct species of ...

Analysis - The ancestors of humans started making tools about 3.3 million years ago. First they made them out of stone, then ...

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

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