A new discovery sheds an entirely new light on the way we understand the homo erectus’ psyche: the faint zig-zag markings, identified on shells found in Indonesia, prove that the ancestor of the ...

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About half a million years ago, the ancestors of modern-day humans did not just eat freshwater shellfish. They also created a form of art using mollusk shells. Josephine Joordens from the Leiden ...

With the opening of Nanjing Tangshan Homo Erectus Fossil Museum on Aug 11, a wax statue of a female Homo erectus attracted numerous visitors to see what a prehistoric beauty from 600,000 years ago ...

During the glacial period that chilled the Earth 140,000 years ago, sea levels in the Indonesian region of Sundaland were low enough for present-day islands to tower like mountain ranges with a ...

Someone made very sophisticated wooden tools in China 300,000 years ago, and it might have been Denisovans or even Homo erectus. The digging sticks, curved root-slicers, and a handful of somewhat ...

Archaeologists have discovered dozens of primitive tools fashioned by direct human ancestors in Kenya and Ethiopia 1.75 million years ago. The Acheulean age of toolmaking, noted for its thinner, more ...

Researchers have uncovered the skulls of two individuals belonging to the species Homo erectus—one of our ancient ancestors—alongside various types of stone tool of differing complexity at a site in ...

Humans aren’t the only animals with numerical awareness, although we are alone in our ability to perform symbolic manipulations of numbers. Taking a deep-dive into the evolutionary roots of our ...

Homo erectus, a direct ancestor of modern humans and the first species to walk fully upright, survived 300,000 years longer than previously thought, scientists claim. A small group of the extinct ...

Homo erectus is widely recognized as the ancestor of human beings. Besides Nanjing Man mentioned above, fossils of the subspecies of Homo erectus found in China also include Peking Man, Yuanmou Man, ...