Stone tools, 2.6 million to 3 million years old, discovered recently in Kenya, along with teeth belonging to the hominin Paranthropus and signs of the butchering of an ancient hippopotamus, pose ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. This photo provided by the Homa Peninsula Paleoanthropology Project shows an Oldowan flake at the Nyayanga site in southwestern ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Oldowan stone tools made from a variety of raw materials sourced more than 6 miles away from where they were found in southwestern ...

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 ...

The researchers say that finding the right rocks was vital as Oldowan tools needed to be fashioned from stones that were strong yet brittle enough to easily flake. But the local rocks at Nyayanga are ...

NEW YORK (AP) — Archaeologists in Kenya have dug up some of the oldest stone tools ever found, but who used them is a mystery. In the past, scientists assumed that our direct ancestors were the only ...

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 ...