2.9-million-year-old butchery site, Nyayanga, reopens case of who made first stone tools; the study has been published in Science
Neanderthals hunted elephants: Earliest evidence found of humans killing elephants for food; the study is published in Science Advances
A study, an analysis of the large herbivore skulls found at Cueva Des-Cubierta, confirms that the Neanderthals possessed symbolic capacity
The CENIEH researcher Emiliano Bruner publishes a review paper about the brain of ‘Homo habilis’ on the Journal of Human Evolution
International team of leading Israeli universities finds oldest evidence of the controlled use of fire to cook food at Gesher Benot Ya’aqob
Footprints indicate the presence of man in Southern Spain in the Middle Pleistocene, 200,000 years earlier than previously thought
Primates’ frontal sinuses could help to distinguish species; the study has been published on Science Advances
Central Asia identified as a key region for human ancestors: it was a key route for some of the earliest hominin migrations
Ancient DNA is rarely well-preserved in fossils, so scientists need to recognize possible hybridization of early humans from skeletons
Sahelanthropus, the oldest representative of humanity, was indeed bipedal… but that’s not all! A new study on the subject on Nature