Stone tools found at Lomekwi in Kenya date to 3.3 million years ago, long before Homo sapiens or even Homo habilis existed.

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Almost 2 million years ago, a young ancient human died beside a spring near a lake in what is now Tanzania, in eastern Africa. After archaeologists uncovered his fossilized bones in 1960, they used ...

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Leading Spanish indie distributor A Contracorriente Films has acquired “Homo Sapiens?” (“Homo Argentum”), the black-comedy anthology from Argentina’s Gastón Duprat and Mariano Cohn (“Official ...

Lead is synonymous with industrial pollution and modern toxicity. Yet this heavy metal has haunted humanity for nearly two million years. According to a new study, this ancient exposure may have ...

Our ancient primate relatives—including Neanderthals—may have enjoyed a nice peck on the lips. But researchers still don’t ...

On an expedition in the Awash Valley in Ethiopia, two anthropologists uncovered the bones of a 3.2 million-year-old human ...

Almost 2 million years ago, a young ancient human died beside a spring near a lake in what is now Tanzania, in eastern Africa ...