Around 40,000 years ago, Neanderthals living in what we now call France crafted tool handles using a special sticky substance ...

Research reveals new evidence of early hominin activity in Europe, suggesting that hominins were present on the continent far earlier than previously thought.

The journey of human ancestors from Africa to other parts of the world has long fascinated scientists. Recent evidence from ...

Modern chimpanzees select rock tools in similar ways to Oldowan hominins, early humans who used stone tools that date back to around 2.5 million years ago. According to a new study, these ...

Homo erectus was able to adapt to and survive in desert-like environments at least 1.2 million years ago, according to a paper published in Communications Earth & ...

To reconstruct the environmental conditions during the time of Homo erectus, the research team used advanced modeling ...

A stone anvil (left ... also reveals the sophisticated methods that early humans used to process plant materials. The basalt tools include mace-type objects and anvils, which would have been ...

A detailed analysis of these remnants was used to recreate the climate and activity of a direct ancestor of modern humans, ...

Belgian scientists from the Free University of Brussels (VUB) have announced the results of an expedition in the Iraqi ...