Homo: Did you mean...?

Cast of Homo erectus skull Sangiran 17 found at Sangiran, Java, Indonesia. It is around 1 million years old and is on display at the David H. Koch Hall of Human Origins at the Smithsonian Natural History Museum.

Skull of a Homo floresiensis individual.

Dr. H. Thieme depicted with spear VI, a spear made by Homo heidelbergensis found at Schöningen, Germany. In total, eight wooden spears that had been carefully crafted were found at this site. They are at least 300,000 years old.

Foot of a Homo habilis individual designated OH 8, found at Olduvai Gorge in Tanzania by Louis and Mary Leakey, probably dating to around 1.8 million years ago. The bones show extensive damage caused by a crocodile – in fact, the whole foot...

Skull of Homo habilis, displayed in the David H. Koch Hall of Human Origins at the Smithsonian Natural History Museum.

Cast of the skull (KNM-ER 1470) of Homo rudolfensis. The original specimen was found at Koobi Fora in Kenya by Bernard Ngeneo (a member of Richard Leakey's team) in 1972. The skull is c. 2 million years old. David H. Koch Hall of Human Origins...

Skull of Homo erectus found in Koobi Fora, Kenya, dated to ca. 1,8 million years old. (Smithsonian Natural History Museum, Washington, D.C.)

Replica of a Homo heidelbergensis skull on display at the David H. Koch Hall of Human Origins at the Smithsonian Natural History Museum in Washington, D.C.

As the Stone Age covers around 99% of our human technological history, it would seem there is a lot to talk about when looking at the development of tools in this period. Despite our reliance on the sometimes scarce archaeological record...

The Palaeolithic ('Old Stone Age') makes up the earliest chunk of the Stone Age – the large swathe of time during which hominins used stone to make tools – and ranges from the first known tool use roughly 2,6 million years ago to the end...