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

The discovery of 1.5-million-year-old bone tools in Tanzania suggests early human ancestors had advanced cognitive abilities ...

The researchers unearthed 427 artefacts, including stone tools and the first ochre pieces- the red-coloured rock used in ...

Kanzi was not the first great ape to learn how to communicate with humans using symbols. Koko the gorilla and Washoe the ...

Archaeologists from the Austrian Academy of Sciences (ÖAW) discovered a 25,000-year-old mammoth slaughter site in ...

A notable exception is the Korolevo site in Western Ukraine, where extensive excavations have been ongoing since the 1970s, revealing Stone Age tools. In the 1970s, researchers discovered a collection ...

The fragments uncovered were clearly produced by human hands using the distinctive techniques of the Clovis people.

The course provides a general understanding of Stone Age technologies, concentrating but not exclusively ... how technological knowledge was and is culturally transmitted. how lithic tools were ...

There are certain monuments and sites that the ASI protects, which include: Prehistoric Sites: Locations with evidence of early human activity, such as rock shelters and stone age tools. Rock-cut ...

Stone tools are considered the first form of technology devised by ancient humans – but they might not have been invented ...

Sharp stone technology chipped over three million years allowed early humans to exploit animal and plant food resources, ...

But how did the production of stone tools—called "knapping"—start? "I don't think it was a 'Eureka!' moment whereby hominins first made a sharp stone flake by intention or by accident and then ...