“Stone tools are not ID cards,” he said. The new study adds to a body of unresolved questions about how the human story ...

Homo erectus adapted to these conditions at least ... The gorge was known for the long record of stone tools that were found on site which were dated to more than 3 million years ago.

Archaeologists previously assumed that East Asia did not see considerable tool development during the Middle Paleolithic, but new findings might change that widely held idea ...

They show that by 1.5 million years ago, our ancestors (Homo erectus) had already developed the cognitive abilities required to transfer skills from making stone tools to making bone tools.

While experts haven’t confirmed Pink’s exact hominin species just yet, they may belong to our famous evolutionary relative, Homo erectus ... relics like stone tools made from flint and ...

Homo erectus was able to adapt to and survive ... and developing specialized stone tools such as scrapers and notched tools (known as denticulates), which the authors suggest were probably used ...

"Stone tools are not ID cards," he said.The new study adds to a body of unresolved questions about how the human story unfolded in Asia before the large-scale arrival of our own species ...