George Washington University archaeologist David Braun and his colleagues recently unearthed stone tools from a 2.75 million-year-old layer of Kenyan sediment at a site called Nomorotukunan. They’re ...

Ancient stone tools found on Sulawesi, an island in Indonesia, raises huge questions about early hominins ability to sail ...

Imagine early humans meticulously crafting stone tools for nearly 300,000 years, all while contending with recurring wildfires, droughts, and dramatic environmental shifts. A study published in Nature ...

Long before cities, writing, or even the earliest members of our own species, our ancestors were already shaping the world ...

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, ...

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Maryland archaeologists and geologists work together to solve 13,000-year-old mystery of Clovis people's hunting and tool ...

FAYETTEVILLE, Ark — Professor Amelia Villaseñor, an associate professor of anthropology at the University of Arkansas, was a part of a team that discovered 2.75 million-year-old stone tools in Kenya.

We may be witnessing the moment when our ancestors first defied a hostile world, using the same tools in the same place for nearly 300,000 years despite the chaos of shifting climates. Picture early ...

Someone born near the start of the 20th century could have witnessed the dawn of commercial flight, the creation of nuclear weapons, the moon landing and even the early growth of the internet.

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