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.

Over 100,000 years ago, a mysterious group of ancient humans walked the lands of eastern Asia. Known as the Juluren—meaning ...

It contained almost 5,000 stone tools, three spheres ... "While hominin species were changing from Homo erectus to H. heidelbergensis, the round rocks were selected from various sources in ...

The newly discovered bone tools ... associated with Homo erectus, hundreds of thousands of years later. This difference in occurrence is not entirely surprising since stone tools are virtually ...

The first species to occupy multiple continents was Homo erectus, and the first fossil evidence we have of them beyond Africa comes from Dmanisi in Georgia . These fossils are around 1.8 million years ...

Pyramids and temples show precise ancient engineeringAncient tools reveal advanced science and metallurgyOld medical and ...

While Rosa shares her delicate build with Homo antecessor, overall she has more affinities with the Homo erectus fossils ... small brains and basic tools. This challenged the idea that advanced ...

These individuals are considered to be a key link between earlier species like Homo erectus and later species ... the region have yielded evidence of stone tools used by Homo heidelbergensis.

U-M expert explains archaeological significance of small African country, a vital source of freshwater and crucial to the study of biodiversity A ...

Scientists have unearthed in Spain fossilized facial bones roughly 1.1 million to 1.4 million years old that may represent a previously unknown species in the human evolutionary lineage — a discovery ...