Archaeology

Oldest Stone Tools Ever Found Were Not Made by Human Hands, Study Suggests

Fossilized hippopotamid skeleton with Oldowan artifacts. (T.W. Plummer, Homa Peninsula Paleoanthropology Project) Archaeologists have revealed what could be the oldest stone…

2 years ago

Why Couldn’t Iron Age People Throw Some Stuff Away?

Grave goods—items buried with the dead—are probably the most obvious artifacts that don’t seem to be “garbage.” They are ubiquitous…

3 years ago

What Drove Homo Erectus Out of Africa?

n a searing hot summer day at ‘Ubeidiya, an ancient site in northern Israel, an undulating expanse of dry grasses…

3 years ago

Richard Leakey

Richard Erskine Frere Leakey FRS (19 December 1944 – 2 January 2022) was a Kenyan paleoanthropologist, conservationist and politician. Leakey held a number of official…

3 years ago

What Ancient DNA Reveals About Life in Africa 20,000 Years Ago

Every person alive on the planet today is descended from people who lived as hunter-gatherers in Africa. The continent is…

3 years ago

How Human Are We?

By Nicholas R. Longrich , is a senior lecturer in paleontology and evolutionary biology at the University of Bath. READER QUESTION: We…

3 years ago

Footprint evidence of early hominin locomotor diversity at Laetoli, Tanzania

Abstract Bipedal trackways discovered in 1978 at Laetoli site G, Tanzania and dated to 3.66 million years ago are widely…

3 years ago

Did Processed Foods Make Us Human?

Article created by Bill Schindler Experimental archaeologist Bill Schindler’s globe-trotting research has led him to champion a diet based on…

3 years ago

Five Breakthrough Signs of Early Peoples in the Americas

More and more archaeological finds reveal a complex picture of how and when people first arrived in North America. Alot…

3 years ago

Indian Prehistory

Give the distribution and characteristic features of Upper Paleolithic culture in India (15 marks, 2021) Critically discuss the origin of…

4 years ago