A Kenyan site reveals early humans made and used the same Oldowan stone tools for 300,000 years, showing remarkable stability ...

The very first humans millions of years ago may have been inventors, according to a discovery in northwest Kenya. Researchers ...

The site sits within sediments that record major environmental upheaval in East Africa during the late Pliocene. Around 3.44 ...

A new site in one of the most important basins for humanity’s evolution has provided evidence of occupation over an ...

Long before cities or farms, the earliest humans were standing in a changing northern Kenyan landscape, striking stone to ...

Imagine early humans meticulously crafting stone tools for nearly 300,000 years, all while contending with recurring ...

Before 2.75 million years ago, the Namorotukunan area featured lush wetlands with abundant palms and sedges, with mean annual precipitation reaching approximately 855 millimeters per year. However, ...

Learn how early hominins crafted the same sharp-edged Oldowan tools through 300,000 years of climate change, revealing one of ...

“But I think that the research at Nyayanga suggests that there is a greater diversity of hominins making early stone tools than previously thought.” She says the artifacts at Nyayanga also underscore ...

More than a million years ago, early human relatives crossed an enormous sea to reach the Indonesian island of Sulawesi. 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 ...