Early Hominin toolmaking at the Melka Wakena site, in Ethiopia, sheds light on Engineering ingenuity; a study published in PLoS ONE
Archaeologists report earliest evidence for plant farming in east Africa, from Kakapel; a trove of ancient plant remains excavated in Kenya
A study of the brain of the Homo erectus fossil with the lowest cranial capacity has been published in the American Journal of Biological Anthropology
2.9-million-year-old butchery site, Nyayanga, reopens case of who made first stone tools; the study has been published in Science
The famous Sterkfontein Caves deposit is one million years older than previously thought; a new study is published on PNAS
Pliopapio alemui and Kuseracolobus aramisi are two different new primate species dated between 4.8 and 4.3 million years ago known only from Gona and the Middle Awash study area in Ethiopia
Several hypothesis suggest a link between the origin of the genus Homo and the climatic and environmental changes that took place in Africa between 2.5 and 3 million years ago
A new archaeological site in Ethiopia shows that the origins of stone tool production are older than 2.58 million years ago
A new study explains that humans evolved from an ancestor not limited to tree or other elevated habitats, and sheds light on what preceded human bipedalism
4.5 million-year old fossil of the human ancestor Ardipithecus ramidus shows evidence of greater reliance on bipedalism than previously suggested
