Three-million-year-old tools found in Kenya reveal early humans' ability to cut food, butcher meat, and adapt to new diets.

Around 40,000 years ago, Neanderthals living in what we now call France crafted tool handles using a special sticky substance ...

The earliest stone tools – found in Lomekwi, Kenya, and used to hammer food items like nuts – are 3.3 million years old and predate our genus, Homo. The find at Bokol Dora 1, or BD 1, consisting of ...

Research Reveals Chimpanzee’s Stone Tool Choices Mirror How Ancient Human Ancestors Used Them Researchers have noted a stark ...

The tools date back to around 2.9 million years ago, when early humans used them to butcher hippos for their meat, the researchers report. Older stone tools have been found in Kenya, dating back to ...

An international study reveals how early humans, as far back as 1.5 million years ago, deliberately selected specific stones ...

Research Reveals Our Ancestors Developed Tools and Intellectual Capacity to Survive in Extreme Dry Conditions 1.2 Million ...

The oldest known use of stone tools dates back to about 2.5 million years ago, during which Oldowan hominins used stones as tools, while the earliest stone tools, known as Lomekwian tools ...

Analysis of basalt tools from the Hula Valley shows that Stone Age humans gathered, extracted and crushed starches from ...

The knee was much older than the earliest known stone tools. The following year Johanson's team discovered another fossil that is still a landmark in the story of human origins. "Lucy" -- named ...

The knee was much older than the earliest known stone tools. The following year Johanson's team discovered another fossil that is still a landmark in the story of human origins. "Lucy" -- named ...