Long before cities or farms, the earliest humans were standing in a changing northern Kenyan landscape, striking stone to ...

The site sits within sediments that record major environmental upheaval in East Africa during the late Pliocene. Around 3.44 ...

A new site in one of the most important basins for humanity’s evolution has provided evidence of occupation over an ...

A Kenyan site reveals early humans made and used the same Oldowan stone tools for 300,000 years, showing remarkable stability ...

Long before the first sparks of civilization — or even humanity as we know it — our ancestors were already inventors. On the ...

Archeologists know early humans used stone to make tools long before the time of Homo sapiens. But a new discovery out this week in Nature... Early humans made tools from bones 1 million years sooner ...

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, ...

An international team of archaeologists has found evidence at the Namorotunga site in Kenya that early humans, 2.75 million ...

We may be witnessing the moment when our ancestors first defied a hostile world, using the same tools in the same place for ...

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." A collection of 27 1.5-million-year-old bone tools discovered in Tanzania shows early humans had an ...

Evidence from a remote site on Sulawesi reveals that ancient human relatives crossed a deep ocean barrier more than a million years ago. The discovery extends the earliest known human movements in ...

Researchers uncovered a 2.75–2.44 million-year-old site in Kenya showing that early humans maintained stone tool traditions ...