Fossils are like time capsules, offering us a rare chance to glimpse the distant past. Over the years, a number of ancient ...

In Olduvai Gorge, archaeologists have discovered a range of bone tools thought to have been made and used by an ancestral human species of hominid called Homo habilis 1.5 million years ago. Known as ...

For a long time, tool technology was seen as a uniquely human trait, associated with the genus ‘Homo’. Now we know tools go ...

The tools may have been made and used by Homo erectus, Homo habilis or Paranthropus boisei. “It could have been any of these three, but it’s almost impossible to know which one,” said Pobiner. The ...

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

africanus. Like all of the other Autralopithecus species, A. boisei walked upright. Homo habilis, which actually means "handy man," is apparently the first species to make and use primitive stone ...

“Out of Africa” has some plausible ideas, namely that Homo erectus advanced and went into colder climates and became Homo heidelbergensis, which led linearly to modern humanity. However, that requires ...

Los Homo habilis -los primeros representantes del género Homo- vivieron en África hace entre 2,5 y 1,5 millones de años y podían fabricar sencillas y pequeñas lascas (cuchillos) de piedra con ...

La impresionante primera secuencia muda y en cámara lenta de la cinta “2001: Odisea del espacio”, de Stanley Kubrick, se convirtió desde que la vi en una de las metáforas fílmicas que más ...

Humans butchered a rhino in a remote part of the Philippines 700,000 years ago, but who were they and how did they get there?