New volcanic dating from Ethiopia’s Omo Kibish formation has pushed the age of Homo sapiens fossils back to at least 233,000 ...

The site sits within sediments that record major environmental upheaval in East Africa during the late Pliocene. Around 3.44 ...

Tools recovered from three sedimentary layers in Kenya show continuous tool use spanning from 2.75 to 2.44 million years ago in the face of environmental changes.

Fossil evidence from Ethiopia has rewritten human history, showing Australopithecus lived one million years earlier than ...

A black vinyl record with a brick-red label spun on the Philips gramophone, playing Muluken Melese’s Bemistir Kiberign during one of our chaotic childhood ...

Researchers uncovered a 2.75–2.44 million-year-old site in Kenya showing that early humans maintained stone tool traditions for nearly 300,000 years despite extreme climate swings. The tools, ...

Since being discovered in 1994, Ardi’s 4.4-million-year-old remains have been at the heart of an anthropological debate. To ...

New findings reveal the geological age, context, and anatomy of hominin fossils discovered at the Ledi-Geraru Research Project in Ethiopia. Although scientists have uncovered much of the story of ...

And It Demands Our Compassion. My New Year’s celebration this year was perhaps the most unusual yet deeply meaningful one I have ever experien ...

Imagine early humans meticulously crafting stone tools for nearly 300,000 years, all while contending with recurring ...

A 4.4-million-year-old Ardipithecus fossil named "Ardi" shows early humans walked upright, keeping ape-like climbing ...

The same Europe that painted God and Adam white also painted Africa dark — the myth of the “Dark Continent” was the secular echo of the religious lie that holiness and whiteness were the same. These ...