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

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 ...

Long before the first sparks of civilization — or even humanity as we know it — our ancestors were already inventors. On the ancient riverbanks of Kenya’s Turkana Basin, nearly three million years ago ...

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

The granite dome became a symbol of American money stability during the Great Depression. Famous architect Frank Lloyd Wright ...

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

“The fossil and plant records tell an incredible story,” said Rahab N. Kinyanjui from the National Museums of Kenya. “As the landscape shifted from lush wetlands to fire-swept grasslands and ...

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, ...

Learn how early hominins crafted the same sharp-edged Oldowan tools through 300,000 years of climate change, revealing one of the longest-lasting technologies in human history.

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

Namorotukunan reveals an enduring tradition, not a moment: human ancestors made the same types of tools for hundreds of thousands of years.