Ancient stone tools found on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi represent the oldest evidence for humans living there 1 ...

Seven newly discovered stone tools, dating to between 1.04 and 1.48 million years ago, were found on the Indonesian island of ...

Homo erectus likely underwent hundreds of thousands of years of dwarfism on that isolated island to evolve into the hobbit ...

African rock art is a captivating glimpse into history, displaying the imagination and cultural expressions of ancient ...

Stone tools and other items from ancient sites in Kenya give a glimpse at the emergence of some key human behaviours, perhaps including a building of relationships with distant neighbours, new ...

Ancient hominins needed the right stone tools to butcher their meals, a long-lived technique of food preparation that helped our ancestors’ bellies stay full. A 430,000-year-old set of stone tools ...

South African Stephen Townley Bassett creates detailed replicas of rock art using traditional materials and methods, including blood, porcupine quills, and ostrich eggshells.

Ancient rock art with humanoid figures, strange creatures, buffalo heads and other animals have been discovered in Eastern Africa, which researchers estimate belongs to an indigenous group that ...

A newly discovered cache of 27 carved and sharpened bones from elephants and hippos found in Tanzania’s Olduvai Gorge site pushes back the date for ancient bone tool use by around 1 million years.

Southern Alberta is home to a large collection of rock art on the Great Plains. Thousands of petroglyphs and hundreds of pictographs have been identified on more than 150 sites across the region.