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New findings in Ivory Coast prove early humans thrived in tropical forests 150,000 years ago

In the streets of Anyama, children play and braziers smoke on corners. Near the local storefronts lies the site of an excavation that unearthed stone tools from 150,000 years ago -- the earliest sign ever of humans inhabiting a tropical forest. After dating the findings from Anyama, researchers from Ivory Coast and several other countries concluded in a study that …

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Ancient humans were crafting tool kits from bone 1.5 million years ago

ABC

Over a million years ago, ancient human ancestors sat down to shave flakes off bones, producing a tool with a carefully created sharp edge. It was in these deeper layers, dated to about 1.5 million years ago, that the team discovered that some of the unearthed bones had small scrapes to sharpen them up as tools. While stone tools are …

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Ancient humans made tools from animal bones 1.5 million years ago

Associated Press

WASHINGTON — Early humans were regularly using animal bones to make cutting tools 1.5 million years ago. A newly discovered cache of 27 carved and sharpened bones from elephants and hippos found in Tanzania’s Olduvai Gorge site pushes back the date for ancient bone tool use by around 1 million years. Researchers know that early people made simple tools from …

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Early humans were crafting tools from bones long before we thought

India Today

Early humans were regularly using animal bones to make cutting tools 1.5 million years ago. A newly discovered cache of 27 carved and sharpened bones from elephants and hippos found in Tanzania's Olduvai Gorge site pushes back the date for ancient bone tool use by around 1 million years. The bone tools were “probably used as a hand axe” a …

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1.5 million-year-old bone tools suggest early human ancestors were capable of advanced craftsmanship

CNN

Sign up for CNN’s Wonder Theory science newsletter. Louis and Mary Leakey, which discovered early human fossils … and the world’s first human stone tools ignited my fascination and fueled the dreams of countless young students, myself included, who aspired to follow in their footsteps.” The site has a timeline spanning 2 million to 20,000 years ago, and researchers have …

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1.5 million-year-old bone tools suggest early human ancestors were capable of advanced craftsmanship

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Sign up for CNN’s Wonder Theory science newsletter. Louis and Mary Leakey, which discovered early human fossils … and the world’s first human stone tools ignited my fascination and fueled the dreams of countless young students, myself included, who aspired to follow in their footsteps.” The site has a timeline spanning 2 million to 20,000 years ago, and researchers have …

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Early Europeans celebrated victory in war by eating their enemies’ brains, cave fossils show

The Independent

Sign up for our free Health Check email to receive exclusive analysis on the week in health Get our free Health Check email Get our free Health Check email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy Fossils unearthed from a Polish cave suggest early Europeans engaged in …

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Homo erectus, not sapiens, first humans to survive desert: study

Raw Story

by Bénédicte Rey Our ancestor Homo erectus was able to survive punishingly hot and dry desert more than a million years ago, according to a new study that casts doubt on the idea that Homo sapiens were the first humans capable of living in such hostile terrain. The moment when the first members of the extended human family called hominins …

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Mastodons and 4-ton sloths lived with humans for millennia in the Americas, new discoveries suggest

LA Times

Artist’s depiction of a person carving an osteoderm from a giant sloth in Brazil about 25,000 to 27,000 years ago. “There was this idea that humans arrived and killed everything off very quickly — what’s called ‘Pleistocene overkill,’” said Daniel Odess, an archaeologist at White Sands National Park in New Mexico. But new discoveries suggest that “humans were existing alongside …

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Mysterious alien-like statue is unearthed from a 7,000-year-old Stone Age settlement in Kuwait - and archaeologists say it's a 'total surprise'

Daily Mail

Archaeologists have unearthed a 7,000-year-old figurine that looks like an alien. 'It was the first such find not just among the over 1.5k small finds excavated from the Bahra 1 site but also from the Arabian Gulf region.' Archaeologists have unearthed a 7,000-year-old figurine that looks like an alien Researchers discovered the unusual form while digging at a site in …

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Remains show that an Early Bronze Age community were butchered like animals

CNN

Sign up for CNN’s Wonder Theory science newsletter. “We actually find more evidence for injuries to skeletons dating to the Neolithic period in Britain than the Early Bronze Age, so Charterhouse Warren stands out as something very unusual,” said lead study author Rick Schulting, professor of scientific and prehistoric archaeology at the University of Oxford, in a statement. “In addition, …

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Unearthed Hualongdong fossils reveal secrets of human evolution

China Daily

This photo taken on Dec 6, 2024 shows human skull fossil fragments displayed at the exhibition hall of Hualongdong site in Dongzhi county of Chizhou city, East China's Anhui province. HEFEI — Chinese scientists have unearthed dozens of human fossils dating back 300,000 years, the earliest evidence in East Asia of the evolutionary transition toward Homo sapiens, the species to …

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Unearthed Hualongdong fossils reveal secrets of human evolution

China Daily

This photo taken on Dec 6, 2024 shows human skull fossil fragments displayed at the exhibition hall of Hualongdong site in Dongzhi county of Chizhou city, East China's Anhui province. HEFEI — Chinese scientists have unearthed dozens of human fossils dating back 300,000 years, the earliest evidence in East Asia of the evolutionary transition toward Homo sapiens, the species to …

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3 months, 4 weeks ago

Archaeologists find 60,000-year-old hearth that Neanderthals may have used to make tar

The Independent

Sign up for our free Health Check email to receive exclusive analysis on the week in health Get our free Health Check email Get our free Health Check email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. They found a pit dug into the ground at Gilbraltar’s seaside Vanguard Cave, which was …

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1.5 million-years-old footprints reveal unknown secret about human species

India Today

A new study has unveiled fossilised footprints from two ancient human species, Homo erectus and Paranthropus boisei, that coexisted in northern Kenya approximately 1.5 million years ago. Discovered at the Koobi Fora site near Lake Turkana, these footprints provide the first physical evidence that these distinct species shared the same landscape, raising intriguing questions about their interactions and potential competition …

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Footprints left 1.5mn years ago in Africa reveal secrets about human evolution

Daily Mail

Two species of ancient humans who were thought to be unknown to each other roamed the plains of Africa side by side 1.5m years ago, a study suggests. And the tracks also opens the possibility the two groups may have interacted with each other and influenced one another The footprints belonging to the Paranthropus boisei, a bipedal primate with smaller …

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4 months ago

The Whole Story of How Humans Evolved From Great Apes

Wired

THIS ARTICLE IS republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Its fossilized anatomy offered evidence of early human upright walking—and 50 years later, in the Afar region of northern Ethiopia that would become a hot spot for ancient human discovery, this understanding took another leap backwards in time with the discovery of Lucy. Lucy the “paleo-rock star” took …

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Discovery of fossilized footprints reveals the moment two ancient human species crossed paths

CNN

Sign up for CNN’s Wonder Theory science newsletter. “It’s surprising that you would have two kinds of similarly sized, large-bodied hominin species on the same landscape,” said Kevin Hatala, first author of a study on the footprints that published in the journal Science on Thursday. Briana Pobiner, a research scientist and museum educator at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural …

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4 months ago

Discovery of fossilized footprints reveals the moment two ancient human species crossed paths

CNN

Sign up for CNN’s Wonder Theory science newsletter. “It’s surprising that you would have two kinds of similarly sized, large-bodied hominin species on the same landscape,” said Kevin Hatala, first author of a study on the footprints that published in the journal Science on Thursday. Briana Pobiner, a research scientist and museum educator at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural …

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5 months, 1 week ago

Giant elephant skull found in the Himalayas leaves scientists perplexed

The Independent

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6 months, 1 week ago

Archaeologists discover surprising origins of ancient Egypt’s favourite board game

The Independent

Sign up for our free Health Check email to receive exclusive analysis on the week in health Get our free Health Check email Get our free Health Check email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. “The game of 58 holes probably served this purpose in the second millennium BC in …

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Mystery creature in South African rock art could be long-extinct species, study finds

The Independent

Sign up for our free Health Check email to receive exclusive analysis on the week in health Get our free Health Check email Get our free Health Check email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy A strange tusked creature depicted by indigenous people in South African …

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