An international team of archaeologists has discovered a 35,000-year-old ivory workshop within a larger mammoth hunting site in Germany. The open-air workshop had been divided into different work zones, where the ivory was split and then carved. Such organization of tasks is thought of as modern human behavior. A stone that may have served as a […]

It has long been thought that human ancestors scavenged for meat that had been killed by large predators. But when Henry Bunn of the University of Wisconsin analyzed the bones of wildebeest, antelopes, and gazelles at a butchery site in Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania, he found that the animals that had been eaten there were not […]