A new study reveals early humans deliberately quarried stone for tools 220,000 years ago, showing advanced planning far ...

Massive herbivores became scarce in the Middle East about 200,000 years ago, and this coincided with a shift towards smaller, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Our prehistoric human ancestors relied on deliberately modified and sharpened stone tools as early as 3.3 million years ago. The ...

Early humans were quarrying stone in southern Africa over 200,000 years ago, reveals new research. People quarried rocks for ...

Recent discoveries have suggested that tool-making, an indicator of intelligence, was practiced by pre-human species millions of years prior to the evolution of Homo sapiens. This revelation has the ...

What the tools say about early resilience Across all the lines of evidence, a specific narrative unfolds – during a time of radical climate fluctuations, early hominins secured their survival in a ...

The earliest known hand-held wooden tools, used by our early human ancestors around 430,000 years ago, have been uncovered by researchers at an archeological site in Greece. One is made from the trunk ...

New research shows Stone Age humans created structured signs and symbol systems 40,000 years ago, long before formal writing ...

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 ...

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 ...