While human behaviors display these complex ... They contribute to debates about the co-evolution of language and tool use in ...

Prehistoric Bone Tool 'Factory' Hints at Early ... regions played a key role in the evolution of ... Fossils and Fires: Insights Into Early Modern Human Activity in the Jungles of Southeast ...

Our human species emerged in Africa around 300,000 years ago but scientists don't yet have a clear picture of what kind of ...

Archaeologists previously assumed that East Asia did not see considerable tool development during the Middle Paleolithic, but ...

It is now clear that tools antedate man, and that their use by prehuman primates gave rise to Homo sapiens Presenting a series of articles on the human species, with special reference to its origins.

Roughly two million years old, this tool, known as the Kanjera stone ... new insights into this Lower Paleolithic phase of human evolution. Long before widespread agriculture, the development ...

The tools are made from the bones of large animals ... by far, casts light on human evolution. It shows that our hominin ancestors were able to think about and make this technology a lot earlier ...

But this oversimplified view of human evolution is not quite right ... and small skull showed our ancestors didn't learn to carve tools or walk upright the moment our brains got big.

Archaeologists in China have found stone technology previously thought to have been used by Neanderthals in Europe, challenging our understanding of human evolution in East Asia. At such a critical ...

Find out if you're part Neanderthal, about the evolution of laughter, what language may owe to tool-making ... to pinpoint the qualities that separate human beings from the millions of other ...

These dates are only approximate, as the tools have been dated from the environments they were found in. This is often the layer of sediment that surrounds the tool. Dating can be done by ...