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, ...

Archaeologists are uncovering toolkits and watercraft that do not sit neatly inside the familiar story of slow, linear progress from scattered foragers to settled farmers. Instead, these finds hint at ...

NEW YORK (AP) — Archaeologists in Kenya have dug up some of the oldest stone tools ever found, but who used them is a mystery. In the past, scientists assumed that our direct ancestors were the only ...

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.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Bone artifacts discovered in Tanzania push back the earliest known date of bone tool technology by over a million years. In ...

Archaeologists in central China have uncovered evidence that early humans were far more inventive than long assumed. Excavations at the Xigou site reveal advanced stone tools, including the earliest ...

Learn about a 500,000-year old hammer made from elephant bone, used by early humans in England to sharpen stone tools. Our ancient ancestors crafted ingenious tools made not just from stone, but from ...

To most people, complex technologies separate modern humans from their ancestors who lived in the Stone Age thousands or hundreds of thousands of years ago. In today’s fast-changing world, older ...

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 ...