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Hunter-gatherers were an important part of the development of the Mapungubwe Kingdom in southern Africa – a fact that history has tended to neglect.

Neanderthals were more sophisticated and similar to humans than you might expect. Along with Denisovans, Neanderthals are our closest ancient human relatives.

The tool, which may have been worn as an amulet, is evidence of a culture that revered the human head.

Teeth belonging to an ape-like individual found at the site leaves researchers puzzled.

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

Nyayanga site artefacts represent the oldest-known examples of a type of stone technology, called the Oldowan toolkit.

The discovery of teeth from the muscular-jawed Paranthropus alongside these stone tools begs the question of whether it might have been that lineage rather than the Homo genus that was the architect of the earliest Oldowan stone tools.

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