From Stone Tools to Guns: A Timeline of Ancient Weapons
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Humans have been hitting, stabbing, and shooting each other for a long time. But when did we first develop ancient weapons, and…
Humans have been hitting, stabbing, and shooting each other for a long time. But when did we first develop ancient weapons, and…
Important scientific advances are changing what we know about the technological, social, and cognitive traits of our ancient…
Oldowan tools are some of the oldest known in the archaeological record; made of conveniently shaped rocks or crafted from…
Stone tools discovered in Kenya are the oldest Oldowan-type implements found, dating back at least 2.6 million years, and they…
The human story begins in Africa. Of the many fascinating fossil sites in Africa, an important one is the Cradle of Humankind…
With advances in artificial intelligence (AI), it seems that the range of economic activities that can and will be automated is…
Yesterday I drove Mrs Gee, a student nurse at the University of East Anglia, to UEA where she had to do some necessary admin…
Every artifact has a story to tell. What makes a discovery meaningful for archaeologists may surprise you.
Human beings used to be defined as “the tool-maker” species. But the uniqueness of this description was challenged in the 1960s…
The process of creating lithic tools took our hominin species millions of years to perfect. However, we often dismiss stone…
A capuchin monkey in Brazil hoists a stone tool to crack open nuts. Luca Antonio Marino, CC BY-ND Human beings used to be…
A reconstruction of the skull of Australopithecus afarensis. (Credit: Wikimedia Commons) 1.2 to 4.4 million years ago was a…
“Stone Age” is a term often used to refer to early periods in human cultural evolution, when deliberately manufactured sharp…
Nearly a hundred stone tools excavated from multiple layers at a site in China point to hominins — our ancestors and closest…
You’d be amazed how little evidence supports many of our ancient human ancestors. Here are the five species with the fewest…
Some of the most impressive buildings and cities ever made by humans can be found in Africa: the ruined city of Great Zimbabwe…
The long-tailed macaques of Thailand already used stone hammers to split open shellfish, and now they have worked out how to…
Understanding the structure of our brain is as important as understanding its size when it comes to evolution, a new report…
Roughly 90% of humans are right-handed and this is one of the traits that separates us from most other primates who don’t…
By Caroline Spry, La Trobe…
A label doesn’t just describe, it shapes our imaginations - so let’s ditch stone age with its limited range and Flintstones…
The discovery may offer new insights into how our distant ancestors created the first knives, axes, and spears.Continue reading…
A month ago at ESHE and now online in Nature, Proffitt and colleagues describe stone-on-stone smashing behavior among wild…
Holy crap 2015 was a big year for fossils. And how fortuitous that 2016 begins on a Fossil Friday – let’s recap some of last…
When did our ancestors first start to use tools? That is a very interesting question, and immediately leads to the question of…
Part II: The Solution This is a guest post by Simon Hoyte, a biology gra...
In May 2015, at a press conference in Nairobi, Kenya, a French-led international team announced the discovery of the oldest…
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La découverte, au Kenya, des plus vieux outils de pierre taillée connus à ce jour, dont la revue Nature s’est fait récemment l’éc…
Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia speaking in Atlanta. Dave Tulis/AP…
(p. A4) One morning in July 2011, while exploring arid badlands near the western shore of Lake Turkana in Kenya, a team of…
The jaw fragment and teeth of Australopithecus deyiremeda, found in the Afar region of Ethiopia.
Welcome to Altmetric’s “High Five” for May, a discussion of the top five scientific papers with the highest Altmetric scores…
SCOPERTE – La tribù degli Hominini si sta allargando a nuove specie, l’ultima ha fatto la sua comparsa giovedì scorso su Nature…
Localización de Lomekwi 3 (LOM3) y otros sitios arqueológicos al Oeste del Lago TurkanaLa fabricación de herramientas está bien…
A paper published in Nature describes the finding of the most ancient stone tools, and informs that they predate the genus "Homo…
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本期封面所示为来自肯尼亚图尔卡纳湖西岸 “Lomekwi 3”发掘点的石器。当Louis Leakey
Tool unearthed at excavation site. Credit: MPK-WTAP 149 stone flakes, hammers and anvils, found off at the Lomekwi 3 site on…
Scientists working in the desert badlands of northwestern Kenya have found stone tools dating back 3.3 million years, long…
A stone tool unearthed at excavation site. (Photo Credit: MPK-WTAP) Stone tools dated to 3.3 million years ago, discovered in…
Scientists working in the desert badlands of northwestern Kenya have found stone tools dating back 3.3 million years, long…
This is an updated version of our post from April 2015. Archaeologists say they’ve unearthed the world’s oldest stone tools…
Finding overturns idea that tool-making ability was unique to our own ancestors and is hailed as a “new beginning to the known…
Scientists have discovered the oldest stone tools ever found, dating back some 3.3 million years to Pliocene Africa—long before…