Scientists believe that recent analysis of a find from the 1970's can offer us insights into the lives of ancient humans.

A roughly 500,000-year-old elephant bone hammer has been discovered in Boxgrove, England. This find ...

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Learn about a 500,000-year old hammer made from elephant bone, used by early humans in England to sharpen stone tools.

Discovered during excavations at Boxgrove in West Sussex, the ancient hammer is among the oldest elephant bone tools ever ...

A 5500-year-old genome recovered from human skeletal remains in Colombia may give insights into the early evolution of ...

An ancient DNA analysis of a 5,500-year-old human skeleton reveals that an ancestor of the bacterium that causes syphilis was ...

A remarkable prehistoric hammer made from elephant bone, dating back nearly half a million years ago, has been uncovered in ...

A palm-sized fragment of elephant bone, shaped and used as a precision tool almost half a million years ago, has been identified as the oldest known elephant-bone implement in Europe. Although the ...

“Our results push back the association of T. pallidum with humans by thousands of years, possibly more than 10,000 years ago ...

Scientists recover DNA from a 5,500-year-old burial in Colombia, revealing ancient syphilis-related bacteria and reshaping disease history.

The way Sahelanthropus tchadensis moved has long been debated. The discovery of a small bump on the front of the thigh bone ...