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Less hunter-gatherers and more gatherers who occasionally hunted.

3D scanning technology has improved in leaps and bounds in the last two decades and become much more affordable. This has led to numerous...

One criticism of current 3D models of archaeological sites is that they are presented devoid of human traces and history.

Millennia of a rodentlike animal’s urine preserve crucial data that could help scientists understand early humans’ leap forward

Kenyan archeologists find 2.9 million years old stone tools believed to be used by the earliest humans.

England will play Senegal in the last 16 of the World Cup on Sunday after beating Wales and finishing top of Group B.

Much of the archaeological record in southern Africa occurs as open-air surface scatters of flaked stone artefacts. While historically prominent, these surface artefacts now play a very limited role in reconstructing human behaviour during the Middle and Later Stone Ages. Given suitable caveats, typologies allow links to be developed between open-air surface scatters and temporally controlled excavated samples, the latter often recovered from rock shelters. Among the limitations of this approach...

Scientists find Africas oldest human burial, a child from 78,000 years ago CNET 2 hrs ago Leslie Katz © Provided by CNET The trench excavation at the mouth of a Panga ya Saidi cave shows where archaeologists unearthed the ancient childs grave. Mohammad Javad Shoaee A cluster of 78,000-year-old bones found at the mouth of a coastal Kenyan cave represent the earliest known formal human burial in Africa, shedding light on how our ancient ancestors interacted with the dead.  T...

Scientists find Africas oldest human burial, a child from 78,000 years ago CNET 3 hrs ago Leslie Katz © Provided by CNET The trench excavation at the mouth of a Panga ya Saidi cave shows where archaeologists unearthed the ancient childs grave. Mohammad Javad Shoaee A tight cluster of 78,000-year-old bones found at the mouth of a Kenyan cave represent the earliest known formal human burial in Africa and shed light on how our ancient ancestors interacted with the dead.  The ...

The new discoveries at sites in Senegal on the West coast of Africa, by Max Planck Institute researchers, are fuelling a rethink of the passage of human evolution.