Some of the oldest stone tools ever found have offered a rare glimpse into the lives of early humans and their relatives. An archaeological excavation on the shore of Lake Victoria in Kenya has ...

Archaeologists have discovered distinctive stone tools at a site in southwestern Kenya that may be up to three million years old, making them the oldest of their kind.. Even more surprising, the ...

When Japanese scientists wanted to learn more about how ground stone tools dating back to the Early Upper Paleolithic might have been used, they decided to build their own replicas of adzes, axes ...

Older stone tools have been found in Kenya, dating back to around 3.3 million years ago, long before our own Homo ancestors appeared. Those tools were a bit simpler and so far have only been found ...

Archaeologists in China’s Yunnan province unearthed stone tools crafted in a style associated with Neanderthals that hasn’t previously been found in East Asia, study says.

Previously, stone tools that had been discovered 800 miles from the Kenyan dig site were estimated to be 3.3 million years old, though they were more “haphazard,” simple and crude.

Researchers from Tokyo Metropolitan University crafted replica Stone Age tools and used them for a range of tasks to see how different activities create traces on the edge. They found that a ...

Stone Flakes Made by Monkeys Raise Questions About Early Human Tools The flakes accidentally produced by long-tailed macaques resemble those thought to have been made by early humans ...

Stone artifacts unearthed in the same sediment as fossil hippo skeletons, such as this one, indicate that hominids used tools to butcher large animals at least 2.6 million years ago, around ...

Wood sharpens stone: Boomerangs used to retouch lithic tools Date: August 16, 2022 Source: Griffith University Summary: A new study into the multipurpose uses of boomerangs has highlighted the ...

Marks on stone tools found in the Tabon Caves on Palawan island in the Philippines suggest they were used for processing plant fibres, allowing the creation of ropes, baskets and other items ...