The mortar, pestle and cutting board in your kitchen are modern versions of manos and metates—ancient cooking implements ...
Researchers find wild chimpanzees prefer plants 2.75 times more flexible, indicating sophisticated understanding of material ...
Archaeologists have discovered the remains of at least five woolly mammoths at a site in Austria. The remains suggest that ancient humans processed the mammoths' ivory tusks 25,000 years ago.
A VARIETY of centuries-old artefacts were discovered using a metal detector in a Yorkshire field. The “once-in-a-lifetime” ...
Join an experience of discovery in one of the richest desert excavations ever conducted, illuminating and transforming our historical knowledge of a unique site.
The ancestors of humans started making tools about 3.3 million years ago. First they made them out of stone, then they switched to bone as a raw material. Until recently, the earliest clear evidence ...