Archaeology: Ancient Homo erectus hand axe made of BONE found in East Africa ARCHAEOLOGISTS have discovered an ancient tool used by our ancestors, in an almost-unprecedented find. By Tom Fish.

Our ancestor Homo erectus was able to survive punishingly hot and dry desert more than a million years ago, according to a ...

Homo erectus walked upright like modern humans, but possessed a flat skull, sloping forehead and a smaller brain. It emerged about 2 million years ago in Africa.

Some researchers consider Homo erectus to be the immediate ancestor of our own species, ... stones that have been shaped on both sides by human hands, such as prehistoric hand axes.

Homo erectus? More like Homo selectus when it comes to tools ... Researchers studied nearly 50 sharpened rocks, including 18 classified as picks, hand axes or cleavers , ...

Homo erectus was also the most successful of all human species, at least so far. ... Acheulean hand axes and cleavers represent a more sophisticated type of production.

Homo ergaster ("working man") is an extinct hominid species (or subspecies, according to some authorities) which lived throughout eastern and southern Africa between 1.9 to 1.4 million years ago ...

Found near Professor Potts' fossil were hand-axes, typical of those associated with H. erectus. Not only that, but the hand-axes are quite big, suggesting they were made by larger individuals. This ...

New tech allows archaeologists to match unique chemical composition between axes and the geographic area where they were created, proving Homo Erectus organized complex expeditions By Melanie ...

Our ancestor Homo erectus was able to survive punishingly hot and dry desert more than a million years ago, ... Specialised tools found at the site, such as hand axes, ...

Our ancestor Homo erectus was able to survive punishingly hot and dry desert more than a million years ago, according to a new study that casts doubt on the idea that Homo sapiens were the first ...