Since Shiyan sits on a treasure trove of relics related to their origins, evolution and development of mankind, experts say ...

Kenya’s Homa peninsula is home to several artifacts of early humanity, most notably the remains of Lucy, a being with mixed ...

The stone selection process is a valuable way to differentiate between primate and hominin stone tools in the archaeological ...

In Stone Tools in Human Evolution, John J. Shea argues that over the last three million years hominins' technological strategies shifted from occasional tool use, much like that seen among living ...

"I think the Oldowan technology is probably the most important technological innovation that ever happened in human history." ...

An international team of paleobiologists, anthropologists and behavioral scientists has found that the process used by modern ...

Analysis raises questions about what the Paleo Diet was historically.

It was observed that younger chimpanzees often mimicked the tool selections of older individuals, suggesting that knowledge of effective stone tools may be passed down through generations. This ...

About 400,000 years ago, early humans in Europe, Asia and Africa lived alongside giant straight-tusked elephants, far bigger ...