Ancient flint tools discovered in Tunel Wielki Cave have been redated to between 450,000 and 550,000 years ago, making them ...

George Washington University archaeologist David Braun and his colleagues recently unearthed stone tools from a 2.75 ...

Ars Technica has been separating the signal from the noise for over 25 years. With our unique combination of technical savvy ...

A single site was occupied over more than 300 millennia, possibly representing where our ancestors honed their ...

New evidence is emerging in Kenya of early humans crafting stone tools for nearly 300,000 years during the Pliocene, despite ...

Long before cities or farms, the earliest humans were standing in a changing northern Kenyan landscape, striking stone to ...

Neanderthals living in Ukraine’s Crimea region deliberately shaped ochre into crayon-like tools for making marks and designs.

Before 2.75 million years ago, the Namorotukunan area featured lush wetlands with abundant palms and sedges, with mean annual precipitation reaching approximately 855 millimeters per year. However, ...

“The fossil and plant records tell an incredible story,” said Rahab N. Kinyanjui from the National Museums of Kenya. “As the ...

New fossils reveal the hand bones of Paranthropus boisei, proving this early human ancestor could make and use tools.

Long before the first sparks of civilization — or even humanity as we know it — our ancestors were already inventors. On the ...

The site sits within sediments that record major environmental upheaval in East Africa during the late Pliocene. Around 3.44 ...