A new study provides a clearer timeline for one of the most significant prehistoric sites worldwide for the study of human ...

According to a statement released by the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, a new study conducted by Ari Matmon of the Hebrew ...

Outgrowth of an international roundtable held in Rome in 2013, entitled "The Emergence of the Acheulean in East Africa," celebrating the 50th anniversary of the discovery of the Melka Kunture Site in ...

Learn about the archaeological site of 'Ubeidiya, now confirmed as one of the oldest areas that humans occupied outside of Africa.

Researchers used three different methods to date the site, challenging the preexisting notion of the site being between 1.2 and 1.6 million years old.

The longest lasting tool-making tradition in prehistory, known as the Acheulean, appears more than 1.5 million years ago in Africa and 1.2 million years ago in India, and mainly consists of stone ...

The Acheulean was estimated to have died out around 200,000 years ago but the new findings suggest it may have persisted for much longer, creating over 100,000 years of overlap with more advanced ...

New dating of an archaeological site in the Thar Desert to 177,000 years ago shows the use of stone handaxes persisted for over 1 million years in India, and may have endured until the arrival of Homo ...