A new study has shown that as early as the Stone Age, people in Africa traveled long distances to procure colorful stone, the ...

The Oldowan age (2.7 million to 1.5 million years ago) represents the dawn of human tool use. Characterized by the very ...

Learn about the 430,000-year-old stone tools and techniques that allowed ancient humans to butcher elephant meat for a hefty ...

Along the shores of Africa's Lake Victoria in Kenya roughly 2.9 million years ago, early human ancestors used some of the oldest stone tools ever found to butcher hippos and pound plant material ...

Previously, stone tools that had been discovered 800 miles from the Kenyan dig site were estimated to be 3.3 million years old, though they were more “haphazard,” simple and crude.

The tools date back to around 2.9 million years ago, when early humans used them to butcher hippos for their meat, the researchers report. Older stone tools have been found in Kenya, dating back ...

Researchers from Tokyo Metropolitan University crafted replica Stone Age tools and used them for a range of tasks to see how different activities create traces on the edge. They found that a ...

The monkeys are prolific bashers of palm nuts using a rudimentary but effective system: a smaller stone (termed a hammerstone) bashed against a larger one, the “anvil,” with a nut in between. The fact ...

When Japanese scientists wanted to learn more about how ground stone tools dating back to the Early Upper Paleolithic might have been used, they decided to build their own replicas of adzes, axes ...

An archaeologist explores the importance of flint to Stone Age man. A modern day worker makes a replica of a Stone Age arrow, showing us how skilled Stone Age people were in their use of flint.

Along the shores of Africa’s Lake Victoria in Kenya roughly 2.9 million years ago, early human ancestors used some of the oldest stone tools ever found to butcher hippos and pound plant material, ...

Archaeologists in Kenya have dug up some of the oldest stone tools ever found, dating back to around 2.9 million years ago, but who used them is a mystery, according to a study published in the ...