Fossils are like time capsules, offering us a rare chance to glimpse the distant past. Over the years, a number of ancient ...

In Olduvai Gorge, archaeologists have discovered a range of bone tools thought to have been made and used by an ancestral human species of hominid called Homo habilis 1.5 million years ago. Known as ...

The newly discovered bone tools, which consist of 27 deliberately split and chipped large mammal long bones, were recovered ...

The tools may have been made and used by Homo erectus, Homo habilis or Paranthropus boisei. “It could have been any of these three, but it’s almost impossible to know which one,” said Pobiner. The ...

For a long time, tool technology was seen as a uniquely human trait, associated with the genus ‘Homo’. Now we know tools go ...

A remarkable discovery has emerged in the heart of Tanzania's Olduvai Gorge, challenging our understanding of ancient human ...

By around 2.5 million years ago a more recent ancestor - Homo habilis or 'man, the toolmaker' appears to have evolved. It is not clear whether Homo habilis developed directly from Australopithecus ...

“Out of Africa” has some plausible ideas, namely that Homo erectus advanced and went into colder climates and became Homo heidelbergensis, which led linearly to modern humanity. However, that requires ...

africanus. Like all of the other Autralopithecus species, A. boisei walked upright. Homo habilis, which actually means "handy man," is apparently the first species to make and use primitive stone ...

Para la ciencia, el origen de la humanidad es producto de un largo proceso evolutivo que abarca millones de años. Desde los ...

Los Homo habilis -los primeros representantes del género Homo- vivieron en África hace entre 2,5 y 1,5 millones de años y podían fabricar sencillas y pequeñas lascas (cuchillos) de piedra con ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Los primeros humanos utilizaban regularmente huesos de animales para fabricar herramientas de corte hace 1,5 millones de años.