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

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

The site sits within sediments that record major environmental upheaval in East Africa during the late Pliocene. Around 3.44 ...

Researchers uncovered a 2.75–2.44 million-year-old site in Kenya showing that early humans maintained stone tool traditions ...

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, ...

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 ...

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

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

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 ...

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

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