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Archaeologists in central China have uncovered evidence that early humans were far more inventive than long assumed. Excavations at the Xigou site reveal advanced stone tools, including the earliest ...

A new study has delved into the debate about the use of an ancient artifact discovered in Iraq nearly a century ago but that ...

A single ancient jawbone is rewriting what scientists thought they knew about humanity’s forgotten relatives.

Archaeologists in Greece have discovered 430,000-year-old handheld wooden tools, the oldest surviving examples of their kind ...

Stone tools from central China dated to 160,000 years ago show early hafting, planning and skill, reshaping views of East ...

Scientists are revisiting the ancient Baghdad battery, a 2,000-year-old artifact that might have been used as a primitive ...

While Thrinaxodon liorhinus didn’t yet have the sophisticated hearing equipment of modern mammals, it shows that eardrums began evolving earlier than assumed.

Used by our early human ancestors around 430,000 years ago, the earliest known hand-held wooden tools have been uncovered by ...

Explore jungle survival and primitive building techniques, including constructing small structures using mud and clay, ...

How ancient African terracing systems, validated by the Green Belt Movement, prefigure the 'innovative' principles of space ...

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