For decades, small grooves on ancient human teeth were thought to be evidence of deliberate tool use – people cleaning their ...

Archaeologists uncovered teeth from an ancient human ancestor in Ethiopia's Afar Region. - Amy Rector/Virginia Commonwealth University Ancient, fossilized teeth, uncovered during a decades-long ...

Because of the ancient interbreeding, many people today from Asia and ... may help resolve a dilemma called the "Muddle in the Middle," the perplexing array of human fossils between 300,000 and one ...

Future research will expand to larger primate samples, investigate diet-wear links in the wild, and apply advanced imaging to see how lesions form. The aim is to refine how we interpret the past while ...

(CNN) — Ancient, fossilized teeth, uncovered during a decades-long archaeology project in northeastern Ethiopia, indicate that two different kinds of hominins, or human ancestors, lived in the same ...