To craft Oldowan tools, ancient human relatives at Nyayanga transported stones over long distances 600,000 years earlier than previously thought
Hominins had a taste for high-carb plants long before they had the teeth to eat them, providing first evidence of behavioral drive in the human fossil record
A reexamination of ancient human migration routes out of Africa; a study published in the journal Comptes Rendus Géoscience
Where did Stone Age hunter-gatherers get the raw material for their tools in eSwatini? A study in the Journal of Archaeological Science
Before dispersing out of Africa, Humans learned to thrive in diverse habitats, according to a new study published in Nature
Researchers estimate that early humans began smoking meat to extend its shelf life as long as a million years ago
The project “Visual Analytics for Images from Colonial Contexts” (VABiKo): an image archive on former German colonies to be made accessible with Artificial Intelligence
Women from Bronze Age Nubia already carried heavy loads on their heads, according to a new study in the Journal of Anthropological Archaeology
A new study reveals a long-isolated North African human lineage in the Central Sahara during the African Humid Period more than 7,000 years ago
The oldest collection of prehistoric bone tools from Olduvai Gorge, mass-produced by hominins during the transition from Oldowan to Acheulean
