Our prehistoric human ancestors relied on deliberately modified and sharpened stone tools as early as 3.3 million years ago. The selection of rock type depended on how easily the material could be ...

The very first humans millions of years ago may have been inventors, according to a discovery in northwest Kenya. Researchers have found that the primitive humans who lived 2.75 million years ago at ...

Scientists in China discovered that ancient humans were making surprisingly advanced stone tools during a harsh ice age ...

For more than 1 million years, early humans in the Levant region of the eastern Mediterranean used a range of heavy tools, such as massive handaxes and stone balls, for important tasks, including ...

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A decline in ancient megafauna in the Middle East coincided with a shift towards smaller, lighter toolkits in the ...

Archaeologists have found that early humans in what is now China were using sophisticated stone tools as far back as 160,000 years ago. "This discovery challenges the perception that stone tool ...

At a site in Kenya, archaeologists recently unearthed layer upon layer of stone stools from deposits that span 300,000 years, and include a period of intense environmental upheaval. The oldest tools ...