Archaeologists have identified the earliest sustained human occupation in Highland Southern Africa, and suggest it could not ...

In the fourth episode of our Stones & Bones video series, National Geographic digital editor Nicholas St. Fleur examines the ...

Members of the Atapuerca Research Team from the Institut Català de Paleoecologia Humana i Evolució Social (IPHES), the Centro ...

Scientists uncover an ancient Ethiopian site preserving daily life, movement, and death from the Middle Stone Age.

Due to the warm climate, researchers only managed to extract usable DNA from the remains of one of the men, estimated to have ...

The evidence suggests that ancient inhabitants processed these giant birds, offering fresh insight into the diet and survival ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Dozens of large and small stone flakes and production waste found at the Jojosi excavation site in eastern South Africa, April 11, ...

Based on this, researchers suggest that early homo sapiens planned for the long-term acquisition of resources earlier than ...

New research shows Stone Age people in southern Africa were quarrying hornfels deliberately at the Jojosi site over 200,000 years ago, much earlier than thought. Excavations revealed production waste ...

Early humans were quarrying stone in southern Africa over 200,000 years ago, reveals new research. People quarried rocks for their tools in places they specifically sought out thousands of years ...