A single site was occupied over more than 300 millennia, possibly representing where our ancestors honed their ...

Long before cities or farms, the earliest humans were standing in a changing northern Kenyan landscape, striking stone to ...

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

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

In a research facility in Manila, microscopic grooves on ancient stone tools are challenging one of archaeology’s ...

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

This photo provided by the Homa Peninsula Paleoanthropology Project in August 2025, shows Oldowan stone tools made from a variety of raw materials sourced more than 6 miles away from where they were ...

Have you ever found yourself in a museum’s gallery of human origins, staring at a glass case full of rocks labeled “stone tools,” muttering under your breath, “How do they know it’s not just any old ...

While early human ancestors started making stone tools at least 2.6 million years ago, bone tools took much longer to appear. The earliest signs of a regular use of bone tools hadn’t shown up in the ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Early human ancestors during the Old Stone Age were more picky about the rocks they used for making tools than previously known, according to research published Friday. Not only did ...