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A study of associations between stone tool evidence and fossil hominin remains shows that a wide range of species made stone artifacts.

ARCHBOLD — Northwest State Community College recently approved emeritus status for two personnel members.

Middle School Principal Kevin Windows’ retirement is official after the Bedford Area school board voted unanimously to accept it at their business meeting Tuesday night.

New discoveries in Kenya may be changing long-accepted paradigms on stone toolmaking.

Bedford Area School District is saying so long to one of its own again, as another retirement looms large in the near future.

Deborah A. Consiglio, 74, Altoona, passed away Thursday at Cone­maugh Nason Medical Center in Martinsburg. She was born in Altoona, the beloved daughter of R

The flakes accidentally produced by long-tailed macaques resemble those thought to have been made by early humans

The discoveries include evidence that Oldowan tools were used to cut and pound animal flesh far earlier than previously known.

Scientists discovered some of the oldest stone tools ever found in Kenya. But the discovery has created a mystery about which early humans used the tools.

"The fact that these tools are associated with Paranthropus may force us to rethink the capabilities of these enigmatic hominins."