A team of Chinese and Kenyan archaeologists have uncovered a Stone Age “production line” that used sophisticated techniques to produce “standardised” tools. The findings could fill in the gaps in our ...

Archaeologists in Kenya have uncovered Oldowan stone tools that push the technology’s origins back toward the 3-million-year mark, and they were found beside fossils from ...

Combining techniques such as geoarchaeology, sedimentology, luminescence dating, and lithic analysis, they discovered that ...

The discovery of stone tools is a window into the lives of our earliest ancestors, providing insight into their daily activities, survival strategies, and cognitive abilities. These tools are not mere ...

Ancient humans lived in tropical rainforests much earlier than we first thought, a new study finds. Before now, the earliest evidence of humans (Homo sapiens) living in rainforest environments dated ...

New technologies today often involve electronic devices that are smaller and smarter than before. During the Middle Paleolithic, when Neanderthals were modern humans’ neighbors, new technologies meant ...

The discovery of stone tools dating to at least 1.04 million years ago at the Early Pleistocene site of Calio on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi indicates that early hominins made a major deep-sea ...

Archaeologists have uncovered primitive sharp-edged stone tools on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi, adding another piece to an evolutionary puzzle involving mysterious ancient humans who lived in a ...

This stone tool found on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi, along with six others, suggest hominins were present on the island and making tools far earlier than thought. M. W. Moore, Screenshot via ...

A STONE-AGE archaeological site in the Arabian peninsula has become the focus of a radical theory of how early humans made the long walk from their evolutionary homeland of Africa to become a globally ...