Ancient humans were regularly making tools out of animal bones 1.5 million years ago – more than a million years earlier than ...

Early humans were regularly using animal bones to make cutting tools 1.5 million years ago. A newly discovered cache of 27 ...

The remains of five enormous woolly mammoths were unearthed in Austria, and they show signs of having been hunted and […] ...

Throughout history, cultures have left behind a trail of breadcrumbs for archaeologists to follow. New sites and artifacts ...

The newly discovered bone tools, which consist of 27 deliberately split and chipped large mammal long bones, were recovered ...

When ancient humans first invented stone tools, they may have been trying to emulate naturally formed sharp stones, meaning they would not have needed a huge leap of inspiration. Can we ever know ...

Recent research provides compelling evidence that Middle Paleolithic peoples created deliberate patterns on stone artifacts ...

Archaeologists have discovered the remains of at least five woolly mammoths at a site in Austria. The remains suggest that ...

DNA recovered from archaeological remains of ancient humans who lived in what is now Tunisia and northeastern Algeria reveals ...

Gombore IB was the oldest inhabited site, dated to 1.7 mya. It contained almost 5,000 stone tools, three spheres, and two fragments of a Homo cf. ergaster humerus (upper arm bone). Spheres that ...

Microscopic plant residues found on bedrock metates offer new insights into the diets and cultural practices of ancient Indigenous communities in the American West. The mortar, pestle, and cutting ...