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This 1.5-million-year-old face changes our view of history!

Researchers have succeeded in reconstructing the skull of an individual from the family of early humans, discovered in ...
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Cave dirt DNA is rewriting early human and Neanderthal history

In the last decade, archaeologists have learned to read the genetic traces that ancient humans and Neanderthals left not only ...
Smithsonian Magazine

15 Years Later, the National Museum of Natural History Is Still Asking What It Means to Be Human

The museum’s groundbreaking Hall of Human Origins centers around the adaptations that set early humans apart Jack Tamisiea What does it mean to be human? This question, deceptively simple and imbued ...
The New York Times

Early Humans Thrived in Rainforests

The discovery clashes with the traditional image of humans evolving on the savannas of East Africa. By Carl Zimmer For generations, scientists looked to the East African savanna as the birthplace of ...
NPR

Fire-making materials at 400,000-year-old site are the oldest evidence of humans making fire

It's easy to take for granted that with the flick of a lighter or the turn of a furnace knob, modern humans can conjure flames — cooking food, lighting candles or warming homes. For much of our ...
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To Craft Early Tools, Ancient Human Relatives Transported Stones Over Long Distances 600,000 Years Earlier Than Previously Thought

Oldowan stone tools made from a variety of raw materials sourced more than six miles away from where they were found in southwestern Kenya. In southwestern Kenya more than 2.6 million years ago, ...
Science Daily

Archaeologists uncover lost land bridge that may rewrite human history

New research along Turkey’s Ayvalık coast reveals a once-submerged land bridge that may have helped early humans cross from Anatolia into Europe. Archaeologists uncovered 138 Paleolithic tools across ...
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Archaeologists uncovered a cache of 1.5 million-year-old bone tools. They’re trying to determine who made them

(CNN) — Archaeologists have uncovered a collection of bone tools in northern Tanzania that were shaped by ancient human ancestors 1.5 million years ago, making them the oldest known bone tools by ...
Newsweek

Evolution: 150,000-Year-Old Rainforest Discovery Shakes Up Human History

Humans were living in rainforests roughly 150,000 years ago, some 80,000 years earlier than was previously thought—and may have been an important center for early human evolution. This is the ...
Smithsonian Magazine

Early Humans Moved Stones Long Distances to Make Tools 600,000 Years Earlier Than Thought

The Nyayanga excavation site in Kenya, in July 2025. Fossils and Oldowan tools have been excavated from the tan and reddish-brown sediments, which date to more than 2.6 million years old. T. W.
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To craft early tools, ancient human relatives transported stones over long distances 600,000 years earlier than previously thought

Oldowan stone tools made from a variety of raw materials sourced more than 6 miles away from where they were found in southwestern Kenya. The development of the Oldowan toolkit made it possible for ...