Tools made from elephant and hippo bones show ingenuity of human ancestors
An assemblage of tools found in Tanzania that was fashioned about 1.5 million years ago from the limb bones of elephants and hippos reveals what scientists are calling a technological breakthrough for the human evolutionary lineage - systematic production of implements made from a material other than stone.
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Fossil Footprints Reveal Early Human Relatives Coexisted 1.5 Million Years AgoA remarkable discovery in northern Kenya has provided the first direct evidence that two early human relatives, Homo erectus ...
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Oldest Human Skulls Outside Africa Might Not Be Homo Erectus After AllIt’s been almost 2 million years since the first archaic humans ventured out of their African homeland. Exactly whose idea it ...
A recent discovery in Kenya’s Koobi Fora region has given scientists a rare glimpse into the distant past, raising new ...
The climate and early human societies were changing quickly during the fall of our closest evolutionary relative—and are big ...
These are humanity’s first knives, says the 48-year-old CSIC researcher. Until now, the oldest known bone tools were from ...
But it's not until Homo erectus came on the scene about 1.9 million years ... You can learn more about our origins and evolution in the Museum's Human Evolution gallery and this feature ...
As a paleontologist, I traveled in May 2023 to the Indonesian islands of the Riau Archipelago, just south of Singapore, as part of an ongoing quest for evidence of Homo erectus, one of our oldest ...
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