Rainforests may have been an important center for early human evolution, challenging the idea that early humans avoided rainforests because their dense vegetation, lack of open spaces, and limited ...

Scientists uncover an ancient Ethiopian site preserving daily life, movement, and death from the Middle Stone Age.

Based on this, researchers suggest that early homo sapiens planned for the long-term acquisition of resources earlier than ...

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 ...

The oldest stone tools outside Africa have been discovered in western China, scientists reported Wednesday. Made by ancient members of the human lineage, called hominins, the chipped rocks are ...

In a cave overlooking the ocean on the southern coast of South Africa, archaeologists discovered thousands of stone tools, created by ancient humans roughly 20,000 years ago. By examining tiny details ...

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, ...

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 ...

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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 ...