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

A decline in ancient megafauna in the Middle East coincided with a shift towards smaller, lighter toolkits in the ...

Scientists have uncovered compelling evidence that humans reached New Guinea and Australia around 60,000 years ago—earlier ...

New research shows Stone Age people in southern Africa were quarrying hornfels deliberately at the Jojosi site over 200,000 ...

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

For decades, textbooks painted a dramatic picture of early humans as tool-using hunters who rose quickly to the top of the food chain. The tale was that Homo habilis, one of the earliest ...

As long as 220,000 years ago—far earlier than previously thought—people quarried rocks for their tools in places they ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Genetic tweaks changed how the hip bones of early humans developed, which allowed them to start walking upright on two legs, ...

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

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New research along Turkey’s Ayvalık coast reveals a once-submerged land bridge that may have helped early humans cross from Anatolia into Europe. Archaeologists uncovered 138 Paleolithic tools across ...

One spring, after a long winter, an aged elephant lay dying at the bank of a small stream near the coast of what is now northern Italy. Soon after, some scavengers arrived to dine on this huge ...