Officials have determined that a leg bone found by a dog in December and a skull found months earlier belong to the same person. The coroner's office said that the left tibia, which is a bone in ...

The left hip and leg bones from a young female Paranthropus robustus discovered in South Africa show she was extremely short ...

The excavation of bone tools at Olduvai Gorge in Tanzania expands the range of ancient hominids’ cultural innovations.

Early humans were regularly using animal bones to make cutting tools 1.5 million years ago. A newly discovered cache of 27 carved and ...

Imagine the scene, around 3 million years ago in what is now east Africa. By the side of a river, an injured antelope keels ...

Responding officers confirmed the bones appeared to be human remains, Roxeanne Vainuku, the department's deputy director of communication, tells PEOPLE. She adds that the medical examiner's office ...

Sima de los Huesos, or the "Pit of Bones," is a significant archaeological site located in the Atapuerca Mountains in northern Spain, near the town of Ibeas de Juarros, in the Burgos Province.

At Olduvai, a Spanish-led team of researchers found 27 tools made out of the leg ... these bones have not been properly identified in other archaeological sites," d'Errico said. As the human ...

One of the smallest human relatives ever found has been unearthed in South Africa. Standing just 3 feet, 4.5 inches (1.03 meters) tall, the adult Paranthropus robustus, who died 2 million years ...

The uniform selection of the bones – large and heavy leg bones from specific animals ... At the time the tools were made, three different species of human ancestors lived in the same region ...