Homo erectus may have deliberately selected rocks embedded with fossils and crystals to craft their hand axes.

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The study of ancient cultures around Ethiopia during the Middle Stone Age (MSA) time period is important for understanding ...

At Jebel Irhoud in Morocco, fossilized human remains and stone tools dated to about 315,000 years ago challenged the ...

For more than 1 million years, early humans in the Levant region of the eastern Mediterranean used a range of heavy tools, ...

Giant salamanders belong to a class of amphibians with traits that have captured serious scientific attention. Like frogs, ...

The gap between genetics and archaeology leaves us with an unclear picture of where the Neanderthals originated. Columnist ...

As rich ore gets harder to find, the mining industry is using subatomic particles to map rock deep underground ...

Scientists are working to close the gap with an emerging discipline called conservation genomics: sequencing an organism’s ...

A DNA study just rewrote the timeline for one of the most debated questions in human history.

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