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An international team has discovered the earliest known hand-held wooden tools used by humans. A study jointly led by Professor Katerina Harvati from the Senckenberg Centre for Human Evolution and ...

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Fossils dating back 773,000 years from Thomas Quarry I in Morocco shed new light on the shared ancestry of Homo sapiens, Neandertals, and Denisovans. An international team of researchers has ...

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

A prehistoric tool uncovered decades ago in southern England has now been firmly identified as a deliberately crafted ...

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

What’s particularly exciting about finds like this is that we just so rarely have wood preserved for that long,” the study’s lead author told NBC News.

Found in southern Greece, the stick was one of two wooden artifacts that appear to have been shaped intentionally, according ...