A little under two million years ago, a prehistoric hominin in Africa made a cognitive leap that enabled it to produce a type of stone tool that was far superior than anything that had come before.

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Homo erectus may have deliberately selected rocks embedded with fossils and crystals to craft their hand axes — possibly to serve as mediators between humans and the cosmos. When you purchase through ...

The first Homo sapien outside Africa was discovered in a Greek cave. Public Domain/University of Tübingen A partial skull found in a cave in Southern Greece is the earliest evidence of the presence of ...

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Researchers have uncovered remarkable handaxes crafted by Homo erectus, with fossils and crystals embedded within them. This fascinating finding, published in the journal Tel Aviv, suggests that these ...

Between 2 million and 3 million years ago, humans appeared in Africa — but identifying them in the fossil record is turning out to be surprisingly difficult. When you purchase through links on our ...

More than 4 million years ago, a new group emerged: the australopithecines. Fully bipedal, with modern human tooth patterns and reduced canines, they spread widely across Africa from south to east and ...