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, ...

Researchers have explored how early modern humans migrated by sea from Taiwan to southern Japan approximately 30,000 years ago. To unravel the mysteries of these difficult ancient voyages, the ...

In 2022, a villager walking through the forest near the Măgura Călanului limestone quarry in Romania came across an ancient set of tools hidden at the base of a tree. The cache of iron tools, ...

Hundreds of stone tools discovered in Kenya have revealed that human relatives traveled long distances to find raw material.

Such tools older than 50,000 years are exceedingly rare in the region. A joint team of archaeologists, chronologists, geologists, and paleontologists have successfully dated a hoard of wooden tools ...

Man's ancestors transported stones over long distances to craft tools 2.6 million years ago - 600,000 years earlier than previously thought. Stone tools unearthed in Kenya reveal that hominins ...

The find resets the timeline of when human beings began using ivory. A recent archaeological discovery in Ukraine has rewritten the timeline for when human beings began using ivory to construct tools ...

Assorted tools found in at a site in Nyayanga, Kenya. (E.M Finestone, J.S. Oliver via SWNS) In an earlier paper, the research team suggested that the bones represent the oldest known evidence of ...