The very first humans millions of years ago may have been inventors, according to a discovery in northwest Kenya. Researchers ...

Long before the first sparks of civilization — or even humanity as we know it — our ancestors were already inventors. On the ...

The study found that early humans passed down tool-making skills for hundreds of thousands of years in Kenya as their climate ...

A Kenyan site reveals early humans made and used the same Oldowan stone tools for 300,000 years, showing remarkable stability ...

More than 80 Stone Age tools have been unearthed at a farm in Dartmoor in the U.K. Experts believe these tools may be 8,000 years old, made by our hunter-gatherer ancestors. The site, located near the ...

New fossils reveal the hand bones of Paranthropus boisei, proving this early human ancestor could make and use tools.

An "incredible discovery" and a "chance finding" is how a family have described uncovering a prehistoric hand axe. Mel ...

George Washington University archaeologist David Braun and his colleagues recently unearthed stone tools from a 2.75 ...

The oldest stone tools discovered were found in a 3.3-million-year-old archaeological site in West Turkana, Kenya, according to findings published in 2015 in the journal, "Nature." The authors called ...

(CNN) — Stone tools unearthed in southwest China helped a mysterious group eke out a living in a cold and harsh environment 60,000 to 50,000 years ago. But whose hands shaped them? The answer could ...

This stone tool found on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi, along with six others, suggest hominins were present on the island and making tools far earlier than thought. M. W. Moore, Screenshot via ...