A team of archeologists in South Africa had to climb to new heights to find an important set of tools made by humans about 20,000 years ago. These newly discovered stone tools were embedded in a cave ...

The discovery drastically recontextualizes the region’s archaeological history. Archaeologists determined that seven stone tools found on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi date back to somewhere ...

Archaeologists in southwestern Kenya have uncovered stone tools that are estimated to be up to 3 million years old. These tools, which may be the oldest of their kind ever discovered, were found near ...

The oldest handmade stone tools discovered yet predate any known humans and may have been wielded by an as-yet-unknown species, researchers say. The 3.3-million-year-old stone artifacts are the first ...

(CNN) — Stone tools unearthed in southwest China helped a mysterious group eke out a living in a cold and harsh environment 60,000 to 50,000 years ago. But whose hands shaped them? The answer could ...

Have you ever found yourself in a museum’s gallery of human origins, staring at a glass case full of rocks labeled “stone tools,” muttering under your breath, “How do they know it’s not just any old ...

The discovery of stone tools dating to at least 1.04 million years ago at the Early Pleistocene site of Calio on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi indicates that early hominins made a major deep-sea ...

Ancient human relatives moved diverse stones over substantial distances, researchers report, revealing a surprisingly high degree of forward planning 600,000 years earlier than experts previously ...

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