Our prehistoric human ancestors relied on deliberately modified and sharpened stone tools as early as 3.3 million years ago. The selection of rock type depended on how easily the material could be ...

Our ancient ancestors weren’t fumbling with crude rocks. A groundbreaking archaeological discovery in Kenya reveals they had mastered a stone tool technology so effective that they stuck with it for ...

Recent discoveries have suggested that tool-making, an indicator of intelligence, was practiced by pre-human species millions of years prior to the evolution of Homo sapiens. This revelation has the ...

The Nyayanga excavation site in Kenya, in July 2025. Fossils and Oldowan tools have been excavated from the tan and reddish-brown sediments, which date to more than 2.6 million years old. T. W.

What the tools say about early resilience Across all the lines of evidence, a specific narrative unfolds – during a time of radical climate fluctuations, early hominins secured their survival in a ...

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, ...

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 early people ...

Building the human story based on a few artefacts is tricky – particularly for wooden tools that don’t preserve well, or cave ...