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

George Washington University archaeologist David Braun and his colleagues recently unearthed stone tools from a 2.75 ...

A newly uncovered trove of ancient stone tools in northwest Kenya suggests early humans didn't use them sporadically but routinely over hundreds of thousands of years, at the very emergence of ...

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

Paleolithic tools found at the Namorotukunan site in Kenya suggest that early Homo species kept their technology going even ...

Long before the first sparks of civilization — or even humanity as we know it — our ancestors were already inventors. On the ...

Oldowan stone tools made from a variety of raw materials sourced more than six miles away from where they were found in southwestern Kenya. In southwestern Kenya more than 2.6 million years ago, ...

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, ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. WASHINGTON (AP) — Ancient stone tools found ...

Researchers uncovered a 2.75–2.44 million-year-old site in Kenya showing that early humans maintained stone tool traditions ...