Combining techniques such as geoarchaeology, sedimentology, luminescence dating, and lithic analysis, they discovered that ...

In a series of recent archaeological expeditions, tools dating back millions of years have been unearthed, offering a new ...

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.

Ancient Humans-Stone Tools This photo provided by the Homa Peninsula Paleoanthropology Project in August 2025, shows Oldowan stone tools made from a variety of raw materials sourced more than 6 miles ...

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, ...

A new find in the Ayvalık region of western Turkey suggests that prehistoric humans somehow "walked" across what is now a ...

For decades, textbooks painted a dramatic picture of early humans as tool-using hunters who rose quickly to the top of the ...

This artist rendering shows hands of early human ancestors, called Australopithecus sediba and Homo naledi, found in South Africa. The left images show photos of the bones, and the right images show ...

Homo habilis was thought to be the first hominin to use stone tools for hunting and processing meat, but they might have been ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — 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 ...