The first lithic study of level VI-B at the Mumba site in Tanzania, a settlement by groups of Homo sapiens present in the Lake Eyasi region between 109,000 and 131,000 years ago
Stone tool technology suggest that the commonly held view of a ‘revolution’ at the time of the dispersal of modern humans in Eurasia was a more nuanced and complicated process of cultural evolution
Paleolithic humans may have understood the properties of rocks for making stone tools, as they preferred middle-grained flint over fine-grained flint
The need to hunt small prey compelled prehistoric humans to produce appropriate hunting weapons and improve their cognitive abilities
The Middle Pleistocene population of Europe could have reached 25,000 individuals; a new study has been published on Scientific Reports