A newly excavated archaeological site in central China is reshaping long-held assumptions about early hominin behavior in ...

Our prehistoric human ancestors relied on deliberately modified and sharpened stone tools as early as 3.3 million years ago.

Researchers identified early handled tools that archeologists previously thought were not created in East Asia until ...

Ancient tools from central China are flipping the script, revealing early humans were far more innovative than history once gave them credit for.

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 ...

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.

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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 ...

Archaeologists have uncovered a collection of bone tools in northern Tanzania that were shaped by ancient human ancestors 1.5 million years ago, making them the oldest known bone tools by about 1 ...

Learn about a 500,000-year old hammer made from elephant bone, used by early humans in England to sharpen stone tools.

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