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

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

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

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 ...

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

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

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 ...

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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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 ...

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