Archaeologists can trace the change from a hunter-gatherer existence to one of farming based upon the changes in stone tools. “Intensive woodworking and tree-felling was a phenomenon that only appeared with the onset of the major changes in human life, including the transition to agriculture and permanent villages,” said Ran Barkai of Tel Aviv University. […]

Paleontologist Meave Leakey of Nairobi’s Turkana Basin Institute has discovered three hominid fossils in northern Kenya. The fossils, two lower jaws and a juvenile’s lower face, could belong to Homo rudolfensis, which until now has only been represented by flat, upright, upper skull pieces. In fact, some scholars have considered those skull pieces to represent […]