The famous Sterkfontein Caves deposit is one million years older than previously thought; a new study is published on PNAS
Neanderthals living in Europe from about 55 to 40 thousand years ago traveled away from their caves to collect resin from pine trees. They then used that sticky substance to glue stone tools to handles made out of wood or bone
Anatomically modern humans at the Klasies River Cave, in South Africa’s southern Cape, were roasting and eating plant starch
A new study, concerning the cave of Bàsura at Toirano and its fossil traces, identifies crawling behaviours from around 14,000 years ago