New research provides strong evidence that the development of technology played a fundamental role in early human evolution.

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The stone tools and fossil bones from the earliest archaeological sites in Africa have ... This volume has a good feel to it - a handsome compact book about the early archaeology of human evolution, ...

An analysis by Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen, Germany, on the manual capabilities of early hominins reveals that some ...

This discovery is unexpected in the genetic archives of southern Africa. Scientists have reconstructed the history of ...

Around 300,000 years ago, they began to shape stone cores from flint that they could carry as a kind of toolkit. They would strike off flakes from this portable core and skilfully turn them into tools ...

This dependence on giant proboscids is part of the universal theory of early human evolution previously proposed by Prof ... Hunting elephants and, mainly, butchering them required immense quanitities ...

Innovation in Stone Tool Technology Involved Multiple Stages at the Time of Modern Human Dispersals Feb. 7, 2024 — A new study illuminates the cultural evolution that took place approximately ...

Two big fossil teeth found at the site belong to an extinct human cousin, known as Paranthropus. Scientists had previously thought that Oldowan tools, a kind of simple stone implement, were only ...

And what they found could challenge our understanding of human evolution. Illustrative image Pixabay Researchers analyzed the genome ... This region, rich in archaeological remains, is known for its ...

The oldest stone tools discovered were found in a 3.3-million-year-old archaeological site in West Turkana, Kenya, according to findings published in 2015 in the journal, "Nature." The authors ...