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Oldest Known Handheld Wooden Tools, 430,000 Years Old, Unearthed in Greece

Exceptional lakebed preservation at Marathousa 1 reveals shaped wooden tools that expand the known Middle Pleistocene toolkit.

Earliest Hafted Tools in East Asia Confirmed at China’s Xigou Site

Oldest Elephant-Bone Tool in Europe Identified at Boxgrove

Saudi Cave Cheetah Mummies Reveal Two Lineages, Informing Reintroduction Plans

Earliest Direct Evidence Shows Hunters Used Poisoned Arrows 60,000 Years Ago

Moroccan Hominin Fossils Dated to 773,000 Years Bolster African Roots of the Homo Sapiens Lineage

Oldest Direct Evidence of Poisoned Arrows Found on 60,000-Year-Old Tools in South Africa

Moroccan Fossils Dated to 773,000 Years Anchor African Ancestors Near Modern Human Roots

Study Finds Cannibalised Neanderthal Women and Children at Belgium's Goyet Caves 45,000 Years Ago

France Returns Rare Tarbosaurus Skeleton to Mongolia After 2015 Seizure

Study Finds Selective Neanderthal Cannibalism of Non-Local Women and Children at Belgian Cave

Ancient Wolves Ferried to Baltic Island Lived on Human Provisioning, PNAS Study Finds

Goyet Cave Study Reconstructs Neanderthal Victims, Suggests Targeted Cannibalism

Reanalysis Overturns ‘Smoking Gun’ for Human Megafauna Hunting in Australia

Targeted qPCR Unearths Gut Pathogens in 1,300-Year-Old Mexican Feces

Early Humans in Italy Butchered a 404,000-Year-Old Elephant and Turned Its Bones Into Tools

Study Finds Early Humans in Italy Butchered Straight‑Tusked Elephants and Turned Bones Into Tools

Scientists Reconstruct 300,000-Year-Old Horse DNA, Extending Limits of Ancient Genetic Preservation

Netherlands Finalizes Return of 28,000 Dubois Fossils, Including 'Java Man,' to Indonesia

Portugal’s First Neanderthal Footprints Point to Coastal Living and Hunting Tactics