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300,000-Year-Old Wooden Tools Suggest Ancient Humans Also Ate Veggies, Not Just Meat

We almost always associate the ancient human diet with one of excessive meat, with a few berries mixed in here and there. It's mostly true that early humans ate a diet of what they could safely get ...
Nature

Evidence for Meat-Eating by Early Humans

The first major evolutionary change in the human diet was the incorporation of meat and marrow from large animals, which occurred by at least 2.6 million years ago. The diet of the earliest hominins ...

Early humans relied on simple stone tools for 300,000 years in a changing east African landscape

Our prehistoric human ancestors relied on deliberately modified and sharpened stone tools as early as 3.3 million years ago.
Archaeology

Did Early Humans Rely on Consuming Carrion?

BURGOS, SPAIN—According to a statement released by the Spanish National Research Centre for Human Evolution (CENIEH), Ana Mateos and Jesús Rodríguez and their colleagues think that scavenging for ...
The Conversation

Mushrooms may have been part of early human diets: primate study explores who eats what and when

Alexander Piel receives funding from the Salk/UCSD Center for Academic Research and Training in Anthropogeny and the Department of Human Origins, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology. He ...