Oldowan tools are some of the oldest known in the archaeological record; made of conveniently shaped rocks or crafted from knapped stones, these tools made it possible for hominin species to survive ...

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 tool kit, which archaeologists call Oldowan, after Olduvai Gorge in Tanzania, where artifacts in this style were first found, was a technological breakthrough that humans carried with them widely ...

WASHINGTON, Feb 9 (Reuters) - Scientists have a mystery on their hands after the discovery of 330 stone tools about 2.9 million years old at a site in Kenya, along Lake Victoria's shores, that were ...

(CNN) — The discovery of 330 stone artifacts in Kenya that date back 2.9 million years is throwing light on a key question in human evolution — who first used stone tools? Scientists unearthed ...

“The diversity of activities that used stone tools suggests that even at this early stage of cultural development, stone tools enhanced the adaptability of the hominins using them.” The researchers ...

This photo provided by the Homa Peninsula Paleoanthropology Project shows an Oldowan flake at the Nyayanga site in southwestern Kenya in 2017. Archaeologists in Kenya have dug up some of the oldest ...

Macaques in Thailand produced stone flakes while cracking nuts—a finding that could change what we thought about human history. Reading time 3 minutes Researchers studying macaques in one of ...