Chimpanzees perched in the lush forests of West Africa, cracking nuts with carefully selected stones, might not just be feeding themselves—they may also be revealing secrets about our ancient ...
Stone tools discovered on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi are rewriting what experts thought they knew about human evolution in this region. The tools date to about 1 million to 1.5 million years ...
More than a million years ago, early human relatives crossed an enormous sea to reach the Indonesian island of Sulawesi. The ...
Oldowan stone tools made from a variety of raw materials sourced more than six miles away from where they were found in southwestern Kenya. In southwestern Kenya more than 2.6 million years ago, ...
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The new work suggests that scavenging persisted among humans long after hunting emerged. So while it has long been argued ...
Russell has a PhD in the history of medicine, violence, and colonialism. His research has explored topics including ethics, science governance, and medical involvement in violent contexts. Russell has ...
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Miniaturized stone tools have long been recognized as hallmarks of human adaptation, but their role in South China has remained scarcely investigated.
We humans are nothing if not inventive. Our innovations have come to underpin virtually every facet of daily life—from what we eat to how we communicate. This ingenuity is intrinsically linked to both ...
Credit: Armando Falcucci Examples of stone tools from the Ahmarian at Ksar Akil (a & b) and the Protoaurignacian at Grotta di Fumane ...
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