More than 200 spear tips excavated from the Kathu Pan 1 site in South Africa are being called the oldest in the world. The 500,000-year-old weapons are thought to have been crafted by Homo heidelbergensis, a common ancestor of modern humans and Neanderthals, who then hafted them to handles and used them to hunt prey. […]

New tests of the teeth of three Australopithecus bahrelghazali individuals ranging in age from 3 million to 3.5 million years old show that these early human ancestors ate a diet rich in grasses and sedges. This kind of food grows in more open terrain, and is thought to represent a shift from the diet of […]