The Oldowan stones are believed to be the oldest known examples of stone tool industry in the world. Their development around ...

This chopper-shaped tool, made of quartz, was discovered near the Kashafrud River in Khorasan Razavi province, northeast Iran ...

Over 200 stone tools including handaxes, scrapers, and cleavers were found, offering clear signs of tool-making by Homo erectus in the Aravalis. The team plans to submit a report urging protection ...

Previously understood only through stone tools, this cultural shift is now ... stranding animals that Homo erectus then scavenged and butchered using stone artifacts and hefty bone implements.

Rich concentration of varied lithic assemblages made from volcanic rocks with different knapping techniques, and evidence of high-quality of standardised obsidian tools ... Stone Age and Late Stone ...

Get Instant Summarized Text (Gist) Fossil discoveries from the seabed in the Madura Strait, Indonesia, including Homo erectus skull fragments and remains of 36 vertebrate species, indicate that ...

Far before modern humans ever walked the Earth, our Homo erectus ancestors made arduous journeys to the present-day islands of Southeast Asia. Fossil remnants of H. erectus have been left all across ...

New insights Fossil remains of Homo erectus have previously been found on the island of Java, the most famous of which are skulls from sites such as Trinil, Sangiran and Ngandong. Until today ...

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LONGTAN, CHINA—CNN reports that stone tools synonymous with Neanderthals were discovered at the Longtan site in southwest China's Yunnan Province—but no Neanderthal is thought to have ever ...

Currently, we Homo sapiens are the only living hominin. We are not the only living species to make and use stone tools, though – many other primates do – but the extent to which hominins ...

These Homo sapiens – nomadic hunter-gatherers who ... mostly flint cores and flakes that they will use on the journey as hunting tools, or as ornaments. These are pieces of their homeland.