The ancient weapons, found in a cave near Marfa, could be among the oldest near-complete set of wood and stone hunting tools ...

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

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.

The new find suggested that the species had more in common with far older human ancestors, experts were able to establish that the Red Deer Cave people weighed around 50 kilograms and had shared ...

But the new bones are hundreds of thousands of years older and shaped differently, suggesting that Homo erectus — an ancestor of modern humans — also lived in Europe during the Early ...

In a cave in northern Spain, researchers have discovered pieces of a fossilized face belonging to an ancient human ancestor — the oldest human fossil ever found in Western Europe. The remains ...

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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 ...

Scientists have discovered that an unknown group of human ancestors contributed 20% of modern human genes, possibly enhancing brain function and shaping evolution. The study, published March 18 in ...

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.

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

A fossil of a partial face from a human ancestor is the oldest in western Europe, archaeologists reported Wednesday. The incomplete skull — a section of the left cheek bone and upper jaw – was ...