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1.2 to 4.4 million years ago was a happening time in human evolution. It’s when our evolutionary branch — the hominins …
1.2 to 4.4 million years ago was a happening time in human evolution. It’s when our evolutionary branch — the hominins …
© Nathan McCord/Wikimedia Commons Stone Age hominins probably also used wood and other materials to make tools, as in this…
For capuchin monkeys at Brazil’s Serra da Capivara National Park, tool use is a tradition going back millennia: A new study…
For capuchin monkeys at Brazil’s Serra da Capivara National Park, tool use is a tradition going back millennia: A new study…
"It is really exciting and very moving to be the first person to pick up a stone artifact since its original maker put it down…
View as slideshow Culture Humans and our ancestors have been creating tools, art, and everyday objects for millions of years…
Our hominin ancestors had started making stone tools on a regular basis around 2.61 million years ago – 10,000 years earlier…
Encontrados na Etiópia, artefatos são o registro mais antigo de que nossos parentes primitivos produziam objetos do tipo.
Members of the Homo genus have been making stone tools for at least 2.6 million years, a new study published in the Proceedings…
© Wikipedia Org Oldowan tools mark the first technology developed by humanity's distant ancestors.
A large stone tool from different angles recovered from sediments in the Ledi-Geraru region of Ethiopia David Braun By Michael…
A team of international and local researchers working in Ethiopia have discovered the earliest-known examples of complex stone…
View as slideshow Culture Humans and our ancestors have been creating tools, art, and everyday objects for millions of years…
View as slideshow Culture Humans and our ancestors have been creating tools, art, and everyday objects for millions of years…
R oughly 90 percent of humans are right-handed, and this is one of the traits that separates us from most other primates who don…
By Alice Gorman, Senior Lecturer in Archaeology and Space Studies, Flinders University “Stone Age” is a term often used to…
“Stone Age” is a term often used to refer to early periods in human cultural evolution, when deliberately manufactured sharp…
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Researchers say scores of stone tools from Shangchen point to hominins in China more than 2 million years ago.
Didier Descouens/CC BY-SA 4.0 Some of our ancestors are known only by the merest fossils – a toe bone here, a jaw fragment there.
Some of the most impressive buildings and cities ever made by humans can be found in Africa: the ruined city of Great Zimbabwe…
Some of the most impressive buildings and cities ever made by humans can be found in Africa: the ruined city of Great Zimbabwe…
: Some of the most impressive buildings and cities ever made by humans can be found in Africa: the ruined city of Great Zimbabwe…
The macaques of southern Thailand have started a new tradition. For at least a century, they have used simple stone tools to…
Lydia Luncz The macaques of southern Thailand have started a new tradition. For at least a century, they have used simple stone…
Human society rewards individuals who can handle complex social interactions and control large groups of people.
Human society rewards individuals who can handle complex social interactions and control large groups of people.
The stone flakes are flying, but what brain regions are firing? Image via Shelby S.
The stone flakes are flying, but what brain regions are firing? Image via Shelby S.
How did humans get to be so smart, and when did this happen? To untangle this question, we need to know more about the…
How did humans get to be so smart, and when did this happen? To untangle this question, we need to know more about the…
(THE CONVERSATION) How did humans get to be so smart, and when did this happen? To untangle this question, we need to know more…
(THE CONVERSATION) How did humans get to be so smart, and when did this happen? To untangle this question, we need to know more…
(THE CONVERSATION) How did humans get to be so smart, and when did this happen? To untangle this question, we need to know more…
(THE CONVERSATION) How did humans get to be so smart, and when did this happen? To untangle this question, we need to know more…
Shelby Putt, Indiana University (THE CONVERSATION) How did humans get to be so smart, and when did this happen? To untangle…
We all know that the human brain is ridiculously large, but how many of us realise that it’s lopsided as well? It turns out…
The human brain is unique in many ways including the amount of asymmetry that exists between its left and right sides (Source…
By Darren Curnoe, Chief Investigator, ARC Centre of Excellence for Australian Biodiversity and Heritage, and Director…
We all know that the human brain is ridiculously large, but how many of us realise that it’s lopsided as well? It turns out…
Aproximadamente el 90% de los seres humanos son diestros y este es uno de los rasgos que nos separa de la mayoría de los otros…
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The answer may be in the mouth of our ancestors. By Caroline Spry Source: The Conversation 12 Jan 2017 - 7:29 AM UPDATED 1 HOUR…
Roughly 90% of humans are right-handed and this is one of the traits that separates us from most other primates who don’t…
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Humans are mostly right-handed, but why? Credit: Deux17 / Shutterstock.com This article was originally published at The…
Roughly 90% of humans are right-handed and this is one of the traits that separates us from most other primates who don’t…
Roughly 90% of humans are right-handed and this is one of the traits that separates us from most other primates who don’t…
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Das Skelett der Vormenschen-Frau aus Ostafrika ist weltberühmt. Neue Funden zeigen: Vor rund 3,3 Millionen Jahren lebte in der…
Congressman Steve King (R-Iowa) posed an interesting question during a panel on MSNBC Monday night.
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Political and economic pundits constantly remind us that this is the ‘Asian Century’, and it’s shaping up to be that way also…
Political and economic pundits constantly remind us that this is the ‘Asian Century’, and it’s shaping up to be that way also…
TOOL TIME One of several significant hominid discoveries in 2015, this 3.3-million-year-old fashioned stone from Kenya suggests…
10:11 Uhr Von Das Skelett der Vormenschen-Frau aus Ostafrika ist weltberühmt. Neue Funden zeigen: Vor rund 3,3 Millionen Jahren…
Dos investigadores replican la publicación del hallazgo de las herramientas líticas más antiguas y opinan que la prestigiosa…
This selection of stone tools provides a glimpse into the implements used by Africans three million years ago. Supplied Stone…
Das Skelett der Vormenschen-Frau aus Ostafrika ist weltberühmt. Neue Funden zeigen: Vor rund 3,3 Millionen Jahren lebte in der…
Das Skelett der Vormenschen-Frau aus Ostafrika ist weltberühmt. Neue Funden zeigen: Vor rund 3,3 Millionen Jahren lebte in der…
Researchers unearth 3.3 million-year-old stone flakes in Kenya, forcing a reimagining of the emergence of such technologies in…
Анализ орудий, найденных в местонахождении Ломекви 3 (Кения) в слоях возрастом 3,3 млн лет, показал, что их сработали с помощью у…
3,3 millioner år gamle stenredskaber fra Kenya er mindst 500.000 ældre end menneskeslægten og lægger op til en større revision…
Este descubrimiento indicaría que la fabricación de herramientas pudo comenzar con antepasados con cerebros más pequeños
Fund af værktøjssten er det vigtigste i 50 år, vurderer dansk arkæolog.
Il y a un mois environ, l'annonce de l'archéologue française du CNRS Sonia Harmand, qui codirige le West Turkana Archaeological…
Il y a un mois environ, l'annonce de l'archéologue française du CNRS Sonia Harmand, qui codirige le West Turkana Archaeological…
Scientists working in the desert badlands bordering the Western shores of Lake Turkana in Kenya have found 149 The post The…
Scientists have discovered the world's oldest stone tools, which date back 3.3 million years, on the shores of a Kenyan lake.
The discovery of the earliest stone artifacts ever found—dating to some 3.3 million years ago—suggests our ancestors were…
Brett Smith for redOrbit.com - Your Universe Online According to a new report in the journal Nature , researchers have…
Stone tools recently discovered in the desert badlands of northwestern Kenya are the oldest yet discovered, dating back 3.3…
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Fund i Kenya er en halv million år ældre end det ældst kendte menneske.
Stone tools discovered in Africa are 3.3 million years old, older than the earliest humans. What earlier ancestor species may…
In 2011, a team of researchers discovered a cache of stone tools near Lake Turkana in northern Kenya. The significance of this…
Researhcers have discovered stone tools dating back 3.3 million years, the oldest in the world that date back long before the…
On the morning of July 9, 2011, we were climbing a remote hill near the western shore of Lake Turkana in northern Kenya. Our…
Investigadores norte-americanos acreditam ter descoberto, no Quénia, as ferramentas humanas mais antigas, com 3,3 milhões de…
Si tratta di incudini e strumenti di pietra portati alla luce nel sito di Lomekwi, in Keya, e risalirebbero ad oltre 3,3…
Vor 3,3 Millionen Jahren gab es in Kenia schon Steinwerkzeuge. Lange vor den ersten Menschen.
Schöpfer der 3,3 Millionen Jahre alten Faustkeile gibt Rätsel auf
Human evolutionary scholars have long supposed that the earliest stone tools were made by the genus Homo and that this…
Vor 3,3 Millionen Jahren gab es in Kenia schon Steinwerkzeuge. Lange vor den ersten Menschen.
Archaeologists on a dig in Kenya made an unexpected discovery – 3.3-million-year-old stone tools that could disprove the theory…
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Archaeologists have made a discovery that may mean our school textbooks have to be rewritten.
The tools, dating to 3.3 million years ago, may indicate that hominins were making tools much earlier than previously thought…
A scientific discovery in Kenya, first reported in April, challenges conventional wisdom about human history, say the…
How do you prove a rock was actively shaped and used as a tool more than 3 million years ago? Scientists found a kit of more…