The timeline of stone tool development by humans has been rearranged by new research, shaking up traditional views about the ...

An analysis looking at the hand bones of australopithecines, apes and humans reveals that tool use likely evolved before the ...

Furthermore, that the development of this capability was key to the evolution of the human lineage from early in its emergence as distinct from apes. The earliest actual stone tool specimens ...

Our ancestors probably used a wide range of plant-based tools that have since been lost to history. Now we're finally getting a glimpse of this Botanic Age ...

Archaeologists uncovered a 150,000-year-old shelter in Tajikistan, offering new insights into human evolution.

Recent excavations in Tajikistan's Zeravshan Valley uncovered an archaeological site dating back as far as 150,000 years, ...

The oldest stone tools discovered were found in a 3.3-million-year-old archaeological site in West Turkana, Kenya, according to findings published in 2015 in the journal, "Nature." The authors ...

Their findings shed light on the evolution of ... important role in early human dispersal. Prior to the fossil’s discovery in 1982, paleontologists only had stone tool artifacts to give a ...