Humans may have started wearing shoes 10,000 years earlier than previously thought, according to a new study of foot bones by Erik Trinkaus of Washington University in St. Louis. He noticed that skeletons from 40,000 years ago had strong, thick leg bones, but their toes had gotten smaller. “They had wimpy toes. I tried to figure […]

A bone arrow point found in a cave in South Africa dates to 60,000 years ago, pushing back the origins of bow-and-arrow technology by 20,000 years, according to Lucinda Backwell of the Bernard Price Institute for Palaeontological Research, Lyn Wadley of Wits University and the Institute for Human Evolution, and Francesco d’Errico of the University […]