Early humans in England used elephant bone to sharpen stone tools, revealing advanced planning, material knowledge, and ...

What the tools say about early resilience Across all the lines of evidence, a specific narrative unfolds – during a time of radical climate fluctuations, early hominins secured their survival in a ...

Ancient tools from China show early humans made complex, hafted technologies 160,000 years ago, reshaping views of innovation ...

Finds from Greece and Britain suggest early hominins were shaping wood and bone with far more intention and ingenuity than ...

Archaeologists in central China have uncovered evidence that early humans were far more inventive than long assumed. Excavations at the Xigou site reveal advanced stone tools, including the earliest ...

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 ...

Learn about a 500,000-year old hammer made from elephant bone, used by early humans in England to sharpen stone tools.

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 ...

Niguss Gitaw Baraki receives funding from the Leakey Foundation and the U.S. National Science Foundation. Dan V. Palcu Rolier's work was supported by NWO Veni grant 212.136, FAPESP grants 2018/20733-6 ...