Archaeologists in Kenya have uncovered Oldowan stone tools that push the technology’s origins back toward the 3-million-year mark, and they were found beside fossils from ...

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

Have you ever found yourself in a museum's gallery of human origins, staring at a glass case full of rocks labeled "stone tools," muttering under your breath, "How do they know it's not just any old ...

The oldest stone tools discovered were found in a 3.3-million-year-old archaeological site in West Turkana, Kenya, according to findings published in 2015 in the journal, "Nature." The authors called ...

Archaeologists have uncovered primitive sharp-edged stone tools on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi, adding another piece to an evolutionary puzzle involving mysterious ancient humans who lived in a ...

New technologies today often involve electronic devices that are smaller and smarter than before. During the Middle Paleolithic, when Neanderthals were modern humans’ neighbors, new technologies meant ...

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

Archaeologists have found an extraordinary cluster of Stone Age artifacts that may have been the personal gear of a single ...

The discovery of stone tools dating to at least 1.04 million years ago at the Early Pleistocene site of Calio on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi indicates that early hominins made a major deep-sea ...

EYOTA, Minn. - In the late 1930s, Adolph Schumann was plowing a corn field on his family's Olmsted County farm when he hit a rock. Riding on the moldboard plow behind his team of horses, the teenager ...

Three newly discovered sites filled with art and stone tools have pushed back the date of when humans returned to Arabia ...