Our prehistoric human ancestors relied on deliberately modified and sharpened stone tools as early as 3.3 million years ago.
The "very rare" find provides an extraordinary glimpse into the ingenuity of early human relatives who lived around half a ...
The earliest hominins in Europe shared their environment with large mammals and elephants were some of the largest animals ...
A roughly 500,000-year-old elephant bone hammer has been discovered in Boxgrove, England. This find ...
This photo provided by the Homa Peninsula Paleoanthropology Project in August 2025, shows Oldowan stone tools made from a variety of raw materials sourced more than 6 miles away from where they were ...
Archaeologists have uncovered primitive sharp-edged stone tools on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi, adding another piece to an evolutionary puzzle involving mysterious ancient humans who lived in a ...
Early humans were not just scavengers. New research shows they actively butchered elephants, transforming survival and social ...
A fragment of elephant bone used to sharpen stone axes nearly half a million years ago has been identified as the oldest ...