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

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

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

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

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

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, ...

Oldowan stone tools made from a variety of raw materials sourced more than 6 miles away from where they were found in southwestern Kenya. The development of the Oldowan toolkit made it possible for ...

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

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 ...