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

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

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

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

The discovery of stone tools dating to at least 1.04 million years ago at the Early Pleistocene site of Calio on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi indicates that early hominins made a major deep-sea ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

We may be witnessing the moment when our ancestors first defied a hostile world, using the same tools in the same place for ...

Archaeologists in southwestern Kenya have uncovered stone tools that are estimated to be up to 3 million years old. These tools, which may be the oldest of their kind ever discovered, were found near ...

Oldowan stone tools made from a variety of raw materials sourced more than six miles away from where they were found in southwestern Kenya. In southwestern Kenya more than 2.6 million years ago, ...

Archeologists discovered simple stone tools that date back an estimated 700,000 years. The discovery was made at Greece's oldest site where ancient humans were thought to exist. It also pushes the ...