2003). The similarities between the living African apes were thought to have been inherited from a common ancestor (=primitive features), implying that the earliest hominins and our last common ...

Finally, at least six of the largest artefacts show that hominins crafted the tools to have a particular shape (with one crescent and one pointed end with a notch, possibly for handling).

Although chimpanzees choose stone types for nut-cracking for distinctly different reasons to hominins in the past, the degree of selectivity and the mechanisms used for identifying appropriate ...

Margherita Mussi, published in Quaternary International, highlights how naturally occurring basalt spheres may have been used by hominin species as a type of ... about which hominins may have ...

Archaeologists have dug up a collection of mass-produced bone tools, the earliest ever discovered, suggesting that hominins systematically made tools out of bone around 1 million years earlier than ...

Geochemical analysis of the tools at Ewass Oldupa suggests that hominins there gathered some ... as specific as choosing slightly different types of quartzite from different outcrops—for ...