A new site in one of the most important basins for humanity’s evolution has provided evidence of occupation over an ...

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

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

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

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, ...

Tools recovered from three sedimentary layers in Kenya show continuous tool use spanning from 2.75 to 2.44 million years ago in the face of environmental changes.

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

“The diversity of activities that used stone tools suggests that even at this early stage of cultural development, stone tools enhanced the adaptability of the hominins using them.” The researchers ...

The very first humans millions of years ago may have been inventors, according to a discovery in northwest Kenya. Researchers ...

CENIEH participates in a study from the Namorotukunan site, in Kenya’s Turkana Basin, which shows that early hominins maintained a stable tradition ...

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 ...

Researchers uncovered a 2.75–2.44 million-year-old site in Kenya showing that early humans maintained stone tool traditions ...