Ancient humans butchered giant elephants with thumb-sized tools

Mammoths were not the only enormous beasts ancient humans hunted. Elephant ancestors were also on the menu. While analyzing ...
Ancient Origins

Ancient Humans Butchered Giant Elephants and Crafted Tools from Their Bones

During a remarkably warm period 400,000 years ago, early humans living near what is now Rome regularly butchered massive straight-tusked elephants, using both their meat and bones as vital resources ...

Early humans dined on giant sloths and other Ice Age giants, archaeologists find

What did early humans like to eat? The answer, according to a team of archaeologists in Argentina, is extinct megafauna, such ...
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Fossils show two types of ancient human ancestors lived at the same place and time. One was possibly an unknown species

Ancient, fossilized teeth, uncovered during a decades-long archaeology project in northeastern Ethiopia, indicate that two different kinds of hominins, or human ancestors, lived in the same place ...
New Scientist

Ancient artists created giant camel engravings in the Arabian desert

Almost 200 engravings created around 12,000 years ago have been discovered in Saudi Arabia, including depictions of camels ...

Ancient skull from China may shake up timeline of human evolution

Researchers used sophisticated scanning and digital reconstruction techniques to determine the original shape of the skull, ...