Paranthropus was an ape-like hominin that survived alongside early humans for more than a million years. A fossilised leg ...

The bone tools were created the same way tools were made from stone.

A new proposal offers an easy route for our ancestors to have made one of their earliest and most important technological ...

For decades, anthropologists believed that early hominins—our distant ancestors roaming Africa over a million years ago—had a limited toolkit. They were thought to have used simple stone tools ...

Most of a human face found in northern Spain belongs to a primitive archaic human, marking the oldest known evidence of hominins in western Europe, anthropologists announced Wednesday. The facial ...

In addition to these spheres, hominin bone fragments were found, providing evidence about which hominins may have collected and used these spheres. Beyond the Homo cf. ergaster bones found at the ...

Not knowing exactly when regular meat consumption became part of our ancestors’ diets is a gap in our understanding of human evolution.

Hominins are the group consisting of modern humans, extinct human species and all our immediate ancestors. “This paper introduces a new actor in the story of human evolution in Europe,” Rosa ...

Before hominins intentionally chipped stone to make tools, they likely used sharp rocks already shaped by natural forces.

Using dentists' tools, archaeologists painstakingly uncover evidence that Israel’s Tinshemet Cave housed hominins who shared rituals and knowledge, and possibly lived in harmony ...

They’re much less complex and precise than the tools made by later hominins, like Neanderthals, who chipped small flakes off carefully prepared stone cores. Geochemical analysis of the tools at ...

Researchers have uncovered the first definitive evidence of Middle Paleolithic Quina technology in East Asia, shedding ...