Changes in Human Hunting Practices May Explain Human Brain Development

Two researchers from the archaeological department at Israel’s Tel Aviv University have come up with an all-inclusive theory to explain the physiological and…

Humans and Neanderthals Met and Mated 50,000 Years Ago in Negev Desert

A recent re-examination of artifacts collected from Israel’s central Negev desert has revealed important details about the development of human culture in the…

Moroccan Cave Find Shows Ancient Humans Made Clothes 120,000 Years Ago

Researchers have announced the discovery of bone tools in a cave in Morocco that appear to have been used to carefully remove skins…

Results of Kenyan Dig Suggest Africa’s First Toolmakers Were Not Human

Updated 10 February, 2023 - 21:56 Nathan Falde A multi-year series of excavations at a site near Lake Victoria in Kenya unearthed a…

Is Archaeology Getting it Wrong? ‘Ancient Stone Tools’ Accidentally Made by Modern Monkeys

Updated 13 March, 2023 - 21:55 Nathan Falde Archaeologists from the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology have announced their discovery of stone…

Significant 200,000-Year-Old Hand Axes Change Saudi Arabia’s Past

Archaeologists digging at the Qurh site in Saudi Arabia’s AlUla Governorate uncovered a set of enormous stone hand axes that were made by…