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 ...

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

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 ...

Imagine early humans meticulously crafting stone tools for nearly 300,000 years, all while contending with recurring ...

Namorotukunan reveals an enduring tradition, not a moment: human ancestors made the same types of tools for hundreds of ...

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

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

Before 2.75 million years ago, the Namorotukunan area featured lush wetlands with abundant palms and sedges, with mean annual precipitation reaching approximately 855 millimeters per year. However, ...

Sara Watson works for the FIeld Museum of Natural History and Indiana State University The Earth of the last Ice Age (about 26,000 to 19,000 years ago) was very different from today’s world. In the ...