Experts are reevaluating prehistoric Pleistocene-era sites in Brazil previously believed to have been home to ancient humans. It turns out, the 50,000-year-old stone tools discovered in excavations ...
Scientists in China discovered that ancient humans were making surprisingly advanced stone tools during a harsh ice age ...
Now, researchers have announced evidence for another genus of human ancestor making stone tools: Paranthropus. To date, three species of Paranthropus have been named: P. aethiopicus, P. robustus, and ...
The discovery of 330 stone artifacts in Kenya that date back 2.9 million years is throwing light on a key question in human evolution — who first used stone tools? Scientists unearthed hammerstones, ...
“The calcite crystals inside the bone acted like a natural clock, allowing us to refine the age of the site,” Zhao explained. Previously, researchers thought that the tools found in Lingjing were ...
The discovery of 330 stone artifacts in Kenya that date back 2.9 million years is throwing light on a key question in human evolution — who first used stone tools? Scientists unearthed hammerstones, ...
Along the shores of Africa's Lake Victoria in Kenya roughly 2.9 million years ago, early human ancestors used some of the oldest stone tools ever found to butcher hippos and pound plant material, ...