The study found that early humans passed down tool-making skills for hundreds of thousands of years in Kenya as their climate ...

The oldest stone tools outside Africa have been discovered in western China, scientists reported Wednesday. Made by ancient members of the human lineage, called hominins, the chipped rocks are ...

Archaeologists uncovered 150,000-year-old tools in Morocco’s Bizmoune Cave, revealing how early humans hunted and lived.

In a cave overlooking the ocean on the southern coast of South Africa, archaeologists discovered thousands of stone tools, created by ancient humans roughly 20,000 years ago. By examining tiny details ...

The oldest stone tools discovered were found in a 3.3-million-year-old archaeological site in West Turkana, Kenya, according to findings published in 2015 in the journal, "Nature." The authors called ...

The continent of Africa is recognized as the place where humankind originated and evolved over millennia. From famous ancestors like Lucy, the Australopithecus afarensis remains unearthed in Ethiopia ...

Visibility has always been important in people’s decisions about where to live and how to arrange their spaces. People make connections with what they can see. Being able to see prominent landmarks, ...

Nyayanga site being excavated in July 2016. Credit: J.S. Oliver, Homa Peninsula Paleoanthropology Project “The assumption among researchers has long been that only the genus Homo, to which humans ...