Our prehistoric human ancestors relied on deliberately modified and sharpened stone tools as early as 3.3 million years ago. The selection of rock type depended on how easily the material could be ...

What the tools say about early resilience Across all the lines of evidence, a specific narrative unfolds – during a time of radical climate fluctuations, early hominins secured their survival in a ...

Recent discoveries have suggested that tool-making, an indicator of intelligence, was practiced by pre-human species millions of years prior to the evolution of Homo sapiens. This revelation has the ...

Ailsa Chang speaks with David Braun, an archeologist, about his team's discovery of a site in Kenya that suggests human ancestors built tools continuously much earlier than previously thought. So when ...

WASHINGTON — Early human ancestors during the Old Stone Age were more picky about the rocks they used for making tools than previously known, according to research published Friday. Not only did these ...

(CN) — Stone tools uncovered in central China suggest early humans there were far more inventive than scientists once believed, making complex tools tens of thousands of years earlier than expected.

Archaeologists in central China have uncovered evidence that early humans were far more inventive than long assumed. Excavations at the Xigou site reveal advanced stone tools, including the earliest ...

During warmer periods of the Middle Pleistocene, ancient humans in Italy were in the habit of butchering elephants for meat and raw materials, according to a study published October 8, 2025 in the ...

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 ...

A multidisciplinary team led by Chinese scientists recently made a significant archaeological discovery at the Gantangjing Paleolithic site in Yunnan province, southwestern China, unearthing 35 ...