Unretouched triangular microlithic projectile points have been identified from their impact traces in the oldest occupation layers of the Obi-Rakhmat site in Uzbekistan, dating to 80,000 years ago.

Tiny triangular-shaped flints from arrowheads found in Uzbekistan shed light on how the first settlement of ‘Homo sapiens’ – ...

Scientists have found that the malaria-transmitting 'Anopheles' species developed a taste for humans around 2 million years ago, a period overlapping with the arrival of 'Homo erectus', an extinct ...

Two fossil skulls discovered in Yunxian, northern China, are now dated to approximately 1.77 million years ago, making them ...

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Two skulls from Yunxian, in northern China, aren’t ancestors of Denisovans after all; they’re actually the oldest known Homo erectus fossils in eastern Asia. A recent study has re-dated the skulls to ...

“While Homo erectus, our distant ancestor, is widely recognized to have originated in Africa before dispersing into Eurasia, ...

New research dates Homo erectus skulls in China to nearly 1.8 million years ago, making them the oldest hominin fossils in East Asia.

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