Early Stone Age populations living in northern Tanzania around 1.2 million years ago made cutting tools that were optimised for their intended use, a study has found. The Olduvai Gorge was occupied by ...

The very first humans millions of years ago may have been inventors, according to a discovery in northwest Kenya. Researchers have found that the primitive humans who lived 2.75 million years ago at ...

George Washington University archaeologist David Braun and his colleagues recently unearthed stone tools from a 2.75 ...

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, ...

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 ...

(CN) – A newly discovered archaeological site in Ethiopia shows modern humans began incorporating stone tools into daily life about 60,000 years earlier than previously thought, suggesting our ...

A stone cutting tool that could be twice as old as the pyramids has been found by a four-year-old boy under his mother's chair at Broome's speedway. Broome's Yawuru Aboriginal Corporation country ...

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When monkeys in Thailand use stones as hammers and anvils to help them crack open nuts, they often accidentally create sharp flakes of rock that look like the stone cutting tools made by early humans.

This image provided by the Smithsonian's Human Origins Program shows artifacts found in southern Kenya's Olorgesailie Basin. For hundreds of the thousands of years, people living there made and used ...

Everyone’s favorite Canadian is at it again. This time, [AVE] needed to cut a large hole in a stone countertop. They making coring bits for this, but a bit this size would cost upwards of $400. Not a ...