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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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 early people ...

Early humans were quarrying stone in southern Africa over 200,000 years ago, reveals new research. People quarried rocks for ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Our prehistoric human ancestors relied on deliberately modified and sharpened stone tools as early as 3.3 million years ago. The ...

Ancient wooden tools found at a site in Gantangqing in southwestern China are approximately 300,000 years old, new dating has shown. Discovered during excavations carried out in 2014–15 and 2018–19, ...

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 ...