A 500,000-year-old tool-making workshop, potentially the oldest in North India, has been discovered in the Mangar Bani forests of Haryana. The site re ...

An illustration of the Homo erectus child with her ... was found with a variety of Oldowan tools. These tool types, which our distant ancestors began making at least 2.6 million years ago, were ...

We are just one branch of a diverse human family tree. Aside from Neanderthals, who were they – and why did we replace them?

The find suggests early humans had more advanced tool-making skills ... including Homo erectus, Homo habilis, and Paranthropus boisei. While it is unclear which species made the tools, researchers ...

Dozens of tools ... making more tools. And scientists also found tools shaped on-site from hippopotamus bones. Eastern Africa is where some of the earliest evidence of tool use by the first Genus ...

Researchers from Tel Aviv University have solved a longstanding mystery about the extensive prehistoric stone quarrying and tool-making ... why did Homo erectus repeatedly visit the same locations to ...

Archaeologists have uncovered a collection of bone tools in northern Tanzania that were shaped by ancient human ancestors 1.5 million years ago, making ... such as Homo habilis, Homo erectus ...

Advanced stone tool strategies: Researchers found that Homo erectus utilized Acheulean tools, including bifacial handaxes and cleavers, strategically sourcing raw materials from distant locations ...

Homo floresiensis, a diminutive hominin dubbed ... floresiensis, they also uncovered stone tools and animal remains in the same sediment layers of the Liang Bua cave. The tools were simple and ...

A million years ago, a species known as Homo erectus most likely survived in an ... The hominins also adapted by upgrading their tools. They took more care when chipping flakes from stones to ...