This photo provided by the Homa Peninsula Paleoanthropology Project in August 2025, shows Oldowan stone tools made from a variety of raw materials sourced more than 6 miles away from where they were ...
The people who made these tools were not yet advanced flintknappers. They turned the cores only a few times, but they were still adept at striking stones at consistent angles. They highly favored ...
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Stone Tools Used For 300,000 Years Straight: Early Humans’ Tech Wasn’t Primitive — It Was Near Perfect
Our ancient ancestors weren’t fumbling with crude rocks. A groundbreaking archaeological discovery in Kenya reveals they had mastered a stone tool technology so effective that they stuck with it for ...
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Human Ancestors Were Making Bone Tools One Million Years Earlier Than Previously Thought
While early human ancestors started making stone tools at least 2.6 million years ago, bone tools took much longer to appear. The earliest signs of a regular use of bone tools hadn’t shown up in the ...
WASHINGTON (AP) — 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 ...
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