In Wonderwerk Cave in South Africa, burned bones were found in a dirt layer associated with Homo erectus. The inhabitants ...
Fire was foundational to human evolution—cooking food over a fire eased digestion in early humans and made more energy ...
Research findings are available online in the journal PLOS One. The original story " New research finds early humans first ...
Long before cities or farms, the earliest humans were standing in a changing northern Kenyan landscape, striking stone to stone with steady hands. Their world was noisy with wind, heat, wildfires, and ...
For both dietary and environmental reasons, we’re rethinking our consumption of meat. But for earlier humans, meat consumption appeared to be a critical, yet somewhat poorly understood, contributor to ...
A chance fossil discovery in Kenya's Koobi Fora in 1969 by Richard Leakey has profoundly reshaped our understanding of human ...
Our prehistoric human ancestors relied on deliberately modified and sharpened stone tools as early as 3.3 million years ago. The selection of rock type depended on how easily the material could be ...
More than 40,000 years ago, Ice Age humans were carving repeated patterns of dots, lines, and crosses into tools and small ivory figurines. A new computational study of more than 3,000 of these ...
Modern humans who lived close to the equator were found to be more likely to be able to digest bugs, but this ability ...
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