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

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

For decades, anthropologists believed that early hominins—our distant ancestors roaming Africa over a million years ago—had a limited toolkit. They were thought to have used simple stone tools, ...

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.

The site is also where archaeologists have previously unearthed artifacts related to some of the first stone tools crafted by early hominins, or human ancestors who walked upright. The new ...

The discovery of 1.5-million-year-old bone tools in Tanzania suggests early human ancestors had advanced cognitive abilities ...

OUR ancestors were making tools out of bones 1.5 million years ago, winding back the clock for this important moment in human ...

Piecing together the story of Europe’s earliest settlers is a challenge, largely because relevant human fossils are scarce.

Using dentists' tools, archaeologists painstakingly uncover evidence that Israel’s Tinshemet Cave housed hominins who shared ...

Sharp stone technology chipped over three million years allowed early humans to exploit animal and plant food resources, ...