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Oldest, Most Complete Homo Habilis Skeleton Described From Kenya

By linking a rare trove of upper-limb bones with matched teeth, researchers secure a confident species identification that yields new size estimates.

Earliest Direct Evidence Shows Hunters Used Poisoned Arrows 60,000 Years Ago

Oldest Direct Evidence of Poisoned Arrows Found on 60,000-Year-Old Tools in South Africa

9,500-Year-Old Malawi Find Is Africa’s Earliest Cremation and Oldest Adult Pyre

Prolonged Drought Tied to ‘Hobbit’ Disappearance on Flores, New Study Finds

Study Traces Primate Kissing to a Common Ape Ancestor 16–21 Million Years Ago

Kenyan Site Shows 300,000 Years of Oldowan Toolmaking Through Climate Shifts

Kenyan Site Reveals 300,000 Years of Early Oldowan Toolmaking

Neanderthal Ochre ‘Crayons’ Identified in Crimea Study

Reanalysis Overturns ‘Smoking Gun’ for Human Megafauna Hunting in Australia

Study Finds Early Humans in Italy Butchered Straight‑Tusked Elephants and Turned Bones Into Tools

Survey of Turkey’s Ayvalık Coast Revives Ice Age Land-Bridge Route Into Europe

eLife Paper Revives Case for Homo Naledi Burials Deep in Rising Star Caves

Ancient DNA Study Identifies Gene Sweep That Made Horses Rideable

Denisovan-Derived MUC19 Variant Rose in the Americas, Study Finds

New Dating Sets Petralona Skull’s Minimum Age at 286,000 Years, Undercutting Older Claims

Fossil Teeth in Ethiopia Point to Oldest Homo and a Possible New Australopithecus

Geochemical Study Reveals 13-Kilometer Toolstone Transport by Hominids

Study Finds Maggot Consumption Could Explain Neandertals’ High Nitrogen Levels

300,000-Year-Old Wooden Tools from China Overturn East Asian Paleolithic Narratives