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Our earliest tool-making ancestors survived on a mostly meat-based diet until about 80,000 years ago when large animals died out and they were forced to eat more vegetables, according to the findings of a new study.  Researchers from Tel Aviv University were able to reconstruct the nutrition of stone age humans by examining 400 scientific papers from different disciplines. These papers, the majority of which focused on human biology, examined the genetics, metabolism, physiology and morphology of our ancient ancestors. They discovered that humans were 'hypercarnivores', an apex predator wi...

Humans living during the Pleistocene era had a growth in brain matter, from 650cc to 1,500cc, due to the extinction of larger animals that forced people to develop cunning skills to track smaller prey.

Updated: February 12, 2021, 9:02 am © Supplied by Deeside Mesolithic Can you dig it: Deeside Mesolithic have gained national recognition. Sign up for our newsletter and let our nostalgia team take you on a trip back in time Thank you for signing up to our Nostalgia newsletter. Something went wrong - please try again later. Sign Up There are no whips or sable fedora hats among the men, women and children who search for ancient artefacts across Aberdeenshire. But, even in lockdown, the members of Mesolithic Deeside have shown a devotion to their craft, of which Indiana Jones would be pr...

Looks like Stone Age people used human bones to make weapons! A grisly discovery on a Netherlands shoreline is making a violent point about life during the Mesolithic era, or Middle Stone Age. What appear to be multiple arrow points – the smallest being approx 9 cm – have washed up from the North Sea. Dated to between 5300 – 7500 BC, they’re certainly in used condition – various markings indicate a brutal purpose. What that was isn’t entirely clear but as the Daily Mail writes, experts are “certain the points were used in projectile weapons, probably arrows but possibly spears.�...

The stone tool styles that took Homo Sapiens out of Africa and across much of the world were gradually replaced with new implements, and were thought to have been abandoned entirely by 30,000 years ago. New discoveries reveal that in West Africa this transition was not made until long after the rest of the world, with replacements only appearing around 11,000 years ago. Long before H. Sapiens' arrival on the scene other early human species had refined stone tool use to a fine art. The first bones of our own species are associated with the appearance of a distinctive style of flaking tools, ...