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

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

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

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

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

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 ...

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, ...

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

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 ...

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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 ...