WASHINGTON (AP) — Ancient stone tools found in western Ukraine may be the oldest known evidence of early human presence in Europe, according to research published Wednesday in the journal Nature. The ...

A total of 27 bone tools found at Tanzania's Olduvai Gorge Technology breakthrough is earlier than previously thought Researchers suspect tool maker was species Homo erectus The 27 tools, discovered ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Archaeologists determined that seven stone tools found on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi date back to somewhere between ...

Homo erectus emerged around 2 million years ago and survived until roughly 117,000 to 108,000 years ago, making it one of the ...

Three of the stone tools from the Korolevo archaeological site (photos courtesy Roman Garba) A new study of ancient stone tools discovered in western Ukraine suggests they may be the oldest known ...

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Facial bone fragments from Sima del Elefante in Spain’s Atapuerca Mountains, dated to about 1.4 million years ago, represent the oldest known human fossil in Western Europe. The remains differ from ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. "There are a lot of firsts associated with Homo erectus," Karen Baab, a biological anthropologist at Midwestern University in ...

A 1.5-million-year-old fossil from Gona, Ethiopia reveals new details about the first hominin species to disperse from Africa. Summary: Virtual reassembly of teeth and fossil bone fragments reveals a ...

The discovery drastically recontextualizes the region’s archaeological history. Archaeologists determined that seven stone tools found on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi date back to somewhere ...