A new study shows that early humans shifted from hunting giants to smaller animals, shaping tools, survival, and intelligence ...

Early humans were quarrying stone as far back as 220,000 years ago, revealing surprisingly advanced planning and resource use.

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The evidence shows that early hominins returned to the same area again and again between 2.75 and 2.44 million years ago. (CREDIT: ...

For more than 1 million years, early humans in the Levant region of the eastern Mediterranean used a range of heavy tools, ...

Imagine early humans meticulously crafting stone tools for nearly 300,000 years, all while contending with recurring wildfires, droughts, and dramatic environmental shifts. A study published in Nature ...

(CN) — Stone tools uncovered in central China suggest early humans there were far more inventive than scientists once believed, making complex tools tens of thousands of years earlier than expected.

Archaeologists in central China have uncovered evidence that early humans were far more inventive than long assumed. Excavations at the Xigou site reveal advanced stone tools, including the earliest ...

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

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 ...