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 ...

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 ...

Entering the gallery, visitors meet hominins like us and our extinct australopithecine relatives, comparing them to non-hominins like the chimpanzee to explore the differences. The human lineage split ...

Using dentists' tools, archaeologists painstakingly uncover evidence that Israel’s Tinshemet Cave housed hominins who shared rituals and knowledge, and possibly lived in harmony ...

Paranthropus was an ape-like hominin that survived alongside early humans for more than a million years. A fossilised leg ...

Get Instant Summarized Text (Gist) Ancient hominins may have used naturally occurring volcanic rock spheres as tools for over a million years. These basalt spheres, found at Pleistocene sites in ...

Knowing the type of locomotion used by many fossil species ... present-day hominoid primates and fossil hominins. This technique makes it possible to identify and compare with greater precision ...

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).

Some 350,000 or more years ago, the group of hominins that would evolve to become Neanderthals and Denisovans left Africa for Eurasia. A few hundred millennia later, about 60,000 to 70,000 years ago, ...

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 ...

Most of a human face found in northern Spain belongs to a primitive archaic human, marking the oldest known evidence of hominins in western Europe, anthropologists announced Wednesday. The facial ...