The stone tools were found at the Lingjing archaeological site in central China. An early human species called Homo juluensis ...

A fossilized leg bone bearing cut marks made by stone tools might be the earliest evidence that ancient humans butchered and ate each other’s flesh. The 1.45-million-year-old hominin bone, described ...

Prior to the start of the Ice Age, a period of global warming may have led to a northward shift of the monsoon rains, allowing prehistoric hominins to migrate out of Africa before crossing the Kazakh ...

A researcher found what appear to be cut marks on the bone of a human ancestor. The position of the marks suggests the flesh may have been removed for consumption. "I was totally shocked," ...

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Nearly a million and a half years ago, a group of human relatives appear to have made a meal of one of their own. Cut marks on an ancient shin bone from a site in northern Kenya show signs of having ...