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Similarities between artifacts found in Lebanon and France suggest Homo sapiens migrants brought tool traditions with them

On the very last day of the dig, a thunderstorm was coming in from Lake Victoria in Kenya. “My graduate student … was up on top of the hill with a laser transit, which is a big metal contraption used for surveying,” recalled Thomas W. Plummer, who was overseeing the archaeological excavation.

Tune in to programs about the original paleo diet, an environmental film festival and more at the National Museum of Natural History.

New excavations that reveal a pair of gigantic molars alongside the Oldowan toolkit raise questions about which human ancestor made the tools.

A recent study on archaeological findings in Kenya cast doubts on the initial assumption that direct relatives of human beings in the Homo lineage were the only tech-savvy creatures of the Stone Age.

A nearly three-million-year-old butchering site packed with animal bones, stone implements and molars from our early ancestors reignites the debate

An Ichthyosaur graveyard, oyster middens and other headline-grabbing findings by scientists at the National Museum of Natural History

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The iconic ancient hominin gets her hands on a smartphone in anticipation of the museum’s upcoming exhibition exploring the global impact of cellphones.