Archaeologists in Russia have made an extraordinary discovery. They have identified a spear carved from bone that’s about ...

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 ...

We are just one branch of a diverse human family tree. Aside from Neanderthals, who were they – and why did we replace them?

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 ...

Pink: fragment (ATE7-1) left of the face of an individual assigned to Homo aff. erectus recovered in level TE7 ... The research at Sima del Elefante has also led to the identification of stone tools ...

Researchers have unearthed stone tools that date back to at least ... the remains of ancient human ancestors such as Homo habilis, Homo erectus and prehistoric Homo sapiens, or modern humans ...

The sheer number of tools - bone and stone - found at the site suggests ... No ancient human fossils were found at the site. While Homo erectus is the leading candidate as the maker of the bone ...

Advanced stone tool strategies: Researchers found that Homo erectus utilized Acheulean tools, including bifacial handaxes and cleavers, strategically sourcing raw materials from distant locations ...

Although Homo erectus lacked the technology needed to hunt those animals (such as spears or bows and arrows), they could use stone tools such as hand axes and sharp flakes to cut through the hides ...

Tool use and, particularly, toolmaking were considered distinctly human abilities that, according to Oakley, most likely started with the large-brained ancestor Pithecanthropus erectus ...