If the archaeological record has been correctly interpreted, stone alignments in Tanzania's Olduvai Gorge are remnants of shelters built 1.7 million years ago by Homo habilis, an extinct species ...

A group of scientists have discovered a buried altar in Guatemala which had remains of people left in mysterious positions so many centuries ago.

Indeed, the reason for that first trip to Olduvai Gorge was to test the idea that a modern-looking skeleton, discovered by German scientist Hans Reck in 1913, was, as Reck claimed, about half a ...

A new project collects more than 55,000 measurements of housing floor area across thousands of years of human history around the globe.

The newly discovered bone tools from Olduvai contribute to our understanding of how hominins engaged with technology to solve the problems that they faced, and how this relationship with ...

If the archaeological record has been correctly interpreted, stone alignments in Tanzania's Olduvai Gorge are remnants of shelters built 1.7 million ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Early humans were regularly using animal bones to make cutting tools 1.5 million years ago. A newly discovered cache of 27 carved and sharpened bones from elephants and hippos found ...

Olduvai stone chopping tool (made 1.8 million years ago) found in Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania, East Africa. Perhaps the best thing of all about being Director of the British Museum, and one that still ...

The Olduvai Gorge handaxe doesn't, of course, look anything like a modern axe - there's no handle and there's no metal blade. It's in fact a piece of grey-green volcanic rock, a very beautiful ...

The bone tools, which all appear to have been systematically produced in the same style as one another, were found in ...

In 1931, Leakey made his first trip to the Olduvai Gorge, in what is now Tanzania -- the site of some of his most important finds. Though he found a few things of interest, he didn't return for a ...