Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The ancestors of humans started making tools about 3.3 million years ago. First they made them out of stone, then they switched to ...
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, ...
Ancient human relatives moved diverse stones over substantial distances, researchers report, revealing a surprisingly high degree of forward planning 600,000 years earlier than experts previously ...
A recent archaeological discovery in Ukraine has rewritten the timeline for when human beings began using ivory to construct tools and other items. Previously, the use of ivory was thought to date ...
In southwestern Kenya more than 2.6 million years ago, ancient humans wielded an array of stone tools—known collectively as the Oldowan toolkit—to pound plant material and carve up large prey such as ...
The droppings contain DNA, he thought, and perhaps, even after rain washes them away, some DNA might remain. And if it does ...