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 stone with steady hands. Their world was noisy with wind, heat, wildfires, and ...

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

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

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

“But I think that the research at Nyayanga suggests that there is a greater diversity of hominins making early stone tools than previously thought.” She says the artifacts at Nyayanga also underscore ...

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

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 ...

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WASHINGTON – 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 these ...

New research finds early human ancestors during the Stone Age were more picky about the rocks they used for making tools than previously thought. WASHINGTON (AP) — Early human ancestors during the Old ...