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

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

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

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

The axes were dated to the Pleistocene, likely made by Homo erectus, the first human species to evolve to have a humanlike ...

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

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 ...

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In caves along the Canadian coast, archaeologists have theorised how early humans hunted one of the most terrifying predators ...

Early humans named Homo erectus reached East Asia 600,000 years earlier than thought, reshaping the timeline of hominin ...

Scientists reconstructed the face of a prehistoric human using a 16,000-year-old skull in southern China offering clues about early human life ...