Imagine walking miles and miles across dangerous terrain frequented by sabertoothed cats just to find the right rock. Around 2.6 million years ago, a group of early hominins in East Africa started to ...

The Oldowan stones are believed to be the oldest known examples of stone tool industry in the world. Their development around 2-3 million years ago represents a significant moment in our evolutionary ...

Early humans who made some of the oldest known stone tools might have traveled miles to secure the best materials for their construction, new research suggests. Archaeologists traced the origins of ...

Explorations in the Dinaledi Subsystem of the Rising Star cave system have yielded some of the earliest evidence of a mortuary practice in hominins. Because the evidence is attributable to the ...