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Along the banks of the Kalambo River in Zambia near Africa's second-highest waterfall, archaeologists have excavated two logs of the large-fruited bushwillow tree that were notched, shaped and joined nearly half a million years ago. The logs, modified using stone tools, appear to have been part of a framework for a structure, a conclusion that contradicts the notion humans at that time simply roamed the landscape hunting and gathering resources. "Not only did the working of trees req...

Archaeologists said on Wednesday they have unearthed the oldest wooden structure ever discovered, dating from nearly half a million years ago, which suggests that our ancestors may have been more advanced than previously thought.Larry Barham, an archaeologist at the UK's University of Liverpool and the study's lead author, told AFP that to his knowledge the previous record-holder for oldest wooden structure dated back around 9,000 years.

The hip bone was found in the Grotte du Renne in France, a cave considered by some to be the last bastion of Neanderthal culture in Western Europe.

Humans have found ways to spice up their dishes for millennia.

The emerging development of language skills fast-forwarded collective learning which gave Homo Sapiens a distinctive advantage over their hominid cousins.

Evidence from stone tools and tooth fragments at the Rimrock Draw Rockshelter has pushed back the archaeological record of human life in North America by some 2,000 years.

VERNON PARISH, LOUISIANA (AP) – Long buried under the woods of west central Louisiana, stone tools, spear points and other evidence of people living in the area as long as 12,000 years ago have become more exposed and vulnerable, due to hurricanes, flooding and looters. This summer, archaeologists have been gingerly digging up the ground […]

The rock found near Dorchester is only the second of its kind to be discovered in England.

A trove of around 800 stone tools, including what archaeologists described as “giant handaxes,” was found in a dig in England.

Using plant matter to make ropes and baskets is a tradition in the Philippines that's possibly been passed down for tens of thousands of years.