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

The fragmentary facial bones belong to Homo affinis erectus, an esoteric offshoot of our family tree that inhabited Spain ...

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

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

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

Now, researchers have uncovered a substantial cache of prehistoric bone tools in the same region dating back 1.5 million years. It's the oldest collection of mass-produced bone tools yet known, ...

The bone tools were created the same way tools were made from stone.

Not knowing exactly when regular meat consumption became part of our ancestors’ diets is a gap in our understanding of human ...

Researchers also found additional relics like stone tools made from flint and quartz, as well as animal bones displaying cut ...