Someone made very sophisticated wooden tools in China 300,000 years ago, and it might have been Denisovans or even Homo erectus.. The digging sticks, curved root-slicers, and a handful of somewhat ...

The hominins who lived at Gantangqing lived a heavily plant-based subsistence lifestyle. They had access to meat, and also ...

Homo erectus was able to adapt to and survive in desert-like environments at least 1.2 million years ago, according to a paper published in Communications Earth & Environment. The findings suggest ...

Homo erectus, one of our ancestors in the line of human evolution, existed for approximately 1.8 million years. They were the first human ancestors known to master the use of fire, tools, and ...

Early humans made tools out of bone 1.5 million years ago : Short Wave Archeologists know early humans used stone to make tools long before the time of Homo sapiens.But a new discovery out this ...

Homo erectus was able to adapt to and survive in desert-like environments at least 1.2 million years ago, according to a paper published in Communications Earth & Environment. The findings suggest ...

New evidence reveals Homo erectus mastered survival in Tanzania’s ancient deserts, proving they were adaptable generalists long before modern humans emerged. Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania. Image ...

The study authors propose that Homo erectus — an early ancestor of modern humans that lived from about 1.89 million to 110,000 years ago — quarried flint at the sites to make tools for hunting ...

“The teeth are a very good marker, so we can say for sure this is indeed an early Homo erectus,” says Mussi. In a previous study published in 2021 , Mussi’s team also re-dated the Garba IV site.

Researchers uncovered Homo erectus skull fragments within 176.5 million cubic feet of sand. Get the Popular Science daily newsletter💡 Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday.

The partial jawbone from a human ancestor nicknamed “Pink” is helping rewrite the history of hominin migration into Western Europe. Researchers believe that Pink represents the oldest archaic ...

The researchers proposed that Homo erectus traveled 450 miles east from Java to Flores, arriving on the island about a million years ago. That’s the age of the oldest stone tools found there.