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

Finds from Greece and Britain suggest early hominins were shaping wood and bone with far more intention and ingenuity than ...

The earliest hominins in Europe shared their environment with large mammals and elephants were some of the largest animals ...

The world's oldest wooden tools – likely dating back 430,000 years and possibly used by Neanderthals or early human ancestors ...

Archaeologists uncovered 430,000-year-old wooden tools in Greece, the oldest ever found, offering new insights into early human technology.

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, ...

Imagine walking miles and miles across dangerous terrain frequented by sabertoothed cats just to find the right rock. Around 2.6 million years ago, a group of early hominins in East Africa started to ...

Scientists believe that recent analysis of a find from the 1970's can offer us insights into the lives of ancient humans.

Imagine early humans meticulously crafting stone tools for nearly 300,000 years, all while contending with recurring wildfires, droughts, and dramatic environmental shifts. A study published in Nature ...

What the tools say about early resilience Across all the lines of evidence, a specific narrative unfolds – during a time of radical climate fluctuations, early hominins secured their survival in a ...

Early humans were not just scavengers. New research shows they actively butchered elephants, transforming survival and social ...

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 ...