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A 1.78-million-year-old partial elephant skeleton found in Tanzania associated with stone tools may represent the oldest ...

Because animals have a limited capability of understanding human language, they cannot “read” the way humans do.

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Impressed by the influence of elephants in our lives, Leonardo da Vinci once wrote: The elephant embodies righteousness, ...

Despite bombs raining down and a lack of tools, feed and medicine, the shelter has remained operational throughout the ...

Stone Age arrowheads found in South Africa showcase the knowledge and strategy of prehistoric hunter-gatherers, according to ...

A 26-ft (8-m) deep excavation in Indonesia has revealed that humans and a hominin species that pre-dates humans used the same ...

Humans and animals are living in closer proximity than ever before. The demands on the livestock industry and the environment ...

The use of poison on arrows marked a revolution in human hunting technology—new evidence suggests it happened tens of ...

This is an extract from Our Human Story, our newsletter about the revolution in archaeology. Sign up to receive it in your inbox every month. If I tried to recap all the new fossils, new methods and ...