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 ...
Long before cities or farms, the earliest humans were standing in a changing northern Kenyan landscape, striking stone to stone with steady hands. Their world was noisy with wind, heat, wildfires, and ...
Scientists have uncovered compelling evidence that humans reached New Guinea and Australia around 60,000 years ago—earlier ...
A new study reveals early humans deliberately quarried stone for tools 220,000 years ago, showing advanced planning far ...
New research shows Stone Age humans created structured signs and symbol systems 40,000 years ago, long before formal writing ...
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 ...
More than 40,000 years ago, Ice Age humans were carving repeated patterns of dots, lines, and crosses into tools and small ivory figurines. A new computational study of more than 3,000 of these ...
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 ...