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.

The Paranthropus genus was characterized by robust jaws and large molars, which gave it the name “nutcracker man.” The bone found belonged to this genus but had a more gracile jaw and smaller ...

New fossil discoveries in South Africa's Swartkrans Cave shed new light on the physical characteristics and lifestyle of Paranthropus ... insights into the internal bone structures.

and shin bone of Paranthropus robustus, changes that. A team of international researchers affiliated to the Evolutionary Studies Institute at the University of the Witwatersrand (Wits University ...

No hominin remains were found alongside the collection of bone artefacts, though it's known that, at the time, our human ancestor Homo erectus and another hominin species known as Paranthropus ...

A newly discovered cache of 27 carved and sharpened bones from elephants and hippos found in Tanzania’s Olduvai Gorge site pushes back the date for ancient bone tool use by around ... Homo habilis or ...

While Homo erectus is the leading candidate as the maker of the bone tools, another more archaic hominin species, called Paranthropus boisei, also is known to have inhabited the region at the time.

The new fossil findings, which include a hipbone, thigh bone, and shin bone, change that. The group of fossils, belonging to a single, young adult, prove that Paranthropus robustus were habitual ...

and shin bone of Paranthropus robustus, changes that,” the university explained. Professor Pickering from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, who led the research said the individual ...

and shin bone of Paranthropus robustus, changes that. “It is estimated that this individual, probably a female, was only about a meter tall and 27 kg when it died, making it even smaller than ...