Researchers found that Oldowan technology - the earliest known stone tool industry - was older and more widespread than previously thought. Their findings were published on Thursday in a peer-reviewed ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Oldowan stone tools made from a variety of raw materials sourced more than 6 miles away from where they were found in southwestern ...

Stone tools, 2.6 million to 3 million years old, discovered recently in Kenya, along with teeth belonging to the hominin Paranthropus and signs of the butchering of an ancient hippopotamus, pose ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Our prehistoric human ancestors relied on deliberately modified and sharpened stone tools as early as 3.3 million years ago. The ...

Scientists have a mystery on their hands after the discovery of 330 stone tools about 2.9 million years old at a site in Kenya, along Lake Victoria's shores, that were used to butcher animals, ...

Oldowan tools are some of the oldest known in the archaeological record; made of conveniently shaped rocks or crafted from knapped stones, these tools made it possible for hominin species to survive ...

Archaeologists have uncovered some of the oldest stone tools ever found, shedding light on how early humans and their relatives adapted to their environment. A remarkable excavation near Lake Victoria ...

The Oldowan stones are believed to be the oldest known examples of stone tool industry in the world. Their development around 2-3 million years ago represents a significant moment in our evolutionary ...

The discovery of a 3 million-year-old toolkit suggests that humans were not actually the first to craft and use utensils. Researchers believe that an early evolutionary relative called Paranthropus ...

Scientists have unearthed what are likely the oldest-known examples of relatively ‘sophisticated’ stone tools at a dig on the shores of Lake Victoria in Kenya. The tools belong to a type known as the ...

“The diversity of activities that used stone tools suggests that even at this early stage of cultural development, stone tools enhanced the adaptability of the hominins using them.” The researchers ...