The left hip and leg bones from a young female Paranthropus robustus discovered in South Africa show she was extremely short ...

A metal detectorist found a hoard of coins which were used throughout the Roman period. Colin Cole unearthed a total of 16 ...

For a long time, tool technology was seen as a uniquely human trait, associated with the genus ‘Homo’. Now we know tools go ...

29,000-year-old ice age human skeleton (screenshot). Credit: The Government Public Relations Department (Thailand) Archaeologists have uncovered the oldest human remains ever found in Thailand, ...

Shang-Te Danny Hsu. "Thanks to her creative thinking and perseverance, we have finally seen in atomic detail how this oldest human coronavirus recognizes our protein, hAPN, as the target for ...

Clay: A Human History,” by Jennifer Lucy Allan, is a collection of fascinating fragments, from ancient myths to music made in porcelain bowls.

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Ancient human relatives crafted sharp-edged tools ... a famous East African fossil location, represent the oldest known evidence of systematic bone tool production by hominids, according to ...

Members of the genus Australopithecus — which includes the famed fossil Lucy — were making stone tools at least 2.6 million years ago. Bone tools appear only much later in the human story, typically ...

If confirmed, our human ancestors started shaping bones by striking them at specific angles in a process known as knapping as much as 1.5 million years ago. The findings come after paleolithic ...