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).

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Our new research focuses on footprints that amazingly record two different species of hominins walking along the same Kenyan lakeshore at the same time, roughly 1.5 million years ago.