The ancestors of humans started making tools about 3.3 million years ago. First they made them out of stone, then they switched to bone as a raw material. Until recently, the earliest clear evidence ...

Olduvai Gorge is a Unesco World Heritage site. It became well known in 1959 through the pioneering work of palaeontologists Louis and Mary Leakey, whose discoveries of early human remains reshaped our ...

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

The discovery of a human facial fragment aged over one million years represents the oldest known face in western Europe and confirms the region was inhabited by two species of human during the early ...

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

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

Cambridge University researchers have uncovered evidence that two distinct populations of ancient hominins, separated for ...

Stone tools recently discovered in Ukraine could potentially rewrite history as the oldest evidence of human presence in ...

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

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

For decades, scientists have believed that meat-eating drove human evolution, particularly our enlarged brains.