In a cave overlooking the ocean on the southern coast of South Africa, archaeologists discovered thousands of stone tools, created by ancient humans roughly 20,000 years ago. By examining tiny details ...
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'Ultimate adventure story': Submerged stone circles reveal perilous migration of prehistoric people to far northern Scotland 11,000 years ago
Stone tools and stone circles discovered in coastal Scotland show that prehistoric people settled farther north than anyone previously believed.
Oldowan stone tools made from a variety of raw materials sourced more than six miles away from where they were found in southwestern Kenya. In southwestern Kenya more than 2.6 million years ago, ...
“From the general shape of the skull, it’s quite apparent that the elephant belonged to Palaeoloxodon, or straight-tusked elephants, among the largest land mammals that ever lived,” Steven Zhang, a ...
Archaeologists have uncovered primitive sharp-edged stone tools on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi, adding another piece to an evolutionary puzzle involving mysterious ancient humans who lived in a ...
Prehistoric tools and ancient anchors were recently discovered during an underwater excavation of a 2,500-year-old shipwreck off the coast of Sicily. The Superintendence of the Sea (SopMare), a ...
The prehistoric site at Yiapan family Land in Narok North Subcounty, with some of the stone tools popping from the ground during excavation that took 7 years to complete. [Courtesy] Ancient stone ...
IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. This object is part of the Education ...
Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday. Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. Some 6,000 years ago in the northern reaches of modern Latvia, a ...
Long before there were maps or names for continents, a handful of people stood at the edge of the world. Picture them on a frozen shoreline in what’s now Japan or Russia, staring east across the gray ...
This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. WASHINGTON (AP) — Ancient stone tools found ...
400,000 years ago, early humans in Europe, Asia and Africa lived alongside giant straight-tusked elephants, far bigger than their modern-day cousins. Their evolution has long been a mystery to ...
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