The first-ever published research out of Tinshemet Cave indicates the two human species regularly interacted and shared technologies and customs.

In the mountains of Atapuerca, Spain, fragments of a 1.4-million-year-old skull have been discovered. These bones, nicknamed Pink (in reference to Pink Floyd's album "The Dark Side of the ...

Not knowing exactly when regular meat consumption became part of our ancestors’ diets is a gap in our understanding of human ...

Australopithecus afarensis is one of the best-known early human ancestors dating from 2.9 to ... afarensis to engage in persistence hunting, unlike later species of the genus Homo species.

Australopithecus afarensis is one of the best-known early human ancestors dating from 2.9-3.9 million years ago ... This means that it was probably not physiologically possible for Australopithecus ...

The spheres, made from volcanic basalt and lapilli, were discovered across eight archaeological sites in Melka Kunture, dated ...

Early humans were regularly using animal bones to make cutting tools 1.5 million years ago. A newly discovered cache of 27 carved and ...

A groundbreaking fossil discovery at Swartkrans Cave has revealed that an early human ancestor walked upright, providing new insights into its size and vulnerability to predators. A team of ...

Some researchers have also linked Australopithecine anatomy to an, as yet unknown, knuckle-walking common ancestor of humans ... to engage in persistence hunting, unlike later species of the ...

This is one of the oldest known human ancestor species ... on the occasional egg or insect but they were not regularly hunting large mammals like Neanderthals did millions of years later.

A collection of older fossils from early human ancestors was previously found in Georgia, near the crossroads of eastern Europe and Asia. Those are estimated to be 1.8 million years old.

The discovery joins other finds — such as a 1.4-million-year-old bone axe from Ethiopia — that suggest the human ancestor Homo erectus often used bones as tools. Tool use is a storied ...