Old beliefs about early human behavior in East Asia are being challenged by the discovery of a richly-layered archaeological ...
A newly excavated archaeological site in central China is reshaping long-held assumptions about early hominin behavior in ...
Early humans in England used elephant bone to sharpen stone tools, revealing advanced planning, material knowledge, and ...
The reason is that even though handles might not last 160,000 years, the engineering decisions that led to their creation can ...
Our prehistoric human ancestors relied on deliberately modified and sharpened stone tools as early as 3.3 million years ago. The selection of rock type depended on how easily the material could be ...
Learn how archaeologists dated stone tools from central China and what they reveal about when early humans in Asia began ...
Researchers identified early handled tools that archeologists previously thought were not created in East Asia until ...
Oldowan stone tools made from a variety of raw materials sourced more than 6 miles away from where they were found in southwestern Kenya. The development of the Oldowan toolkit made it possible for ...
Oldowan stone tools made from a variety of raw materials sourced more than six miles away from where they were found in southwestern Kenya. In southwestern Kenya more than 2.6 million years ago, ...
Niguss Gitaw Baraki receives funding from the Leakey Foundation and the U.S. National Science Foundation. Dan V. Palcu Rolier's work was supported by NWO Veni grant 212.136, FAPESP grants 2018/20733-6 ...