When Japanese scientists wanted to learn more about how ground stone tools dating back to the Early Upper Paleolithic might have been used, they decided to build their own replicas of adzes, axes, and ...

Man's ancestors transported stones over long distances to craft tools 2.6 million years ago - 600,000 years earlier than previously thought. Stone tools unearthed in Kenya reveal that hominins ...

Oldowan stone tools made from a variety of raw materials sourced more than 6 miles away from where they were found in southwestern Kenya. The development of the Oldowan toolkit made it possible for ...

Archeological evidence has indicated that early humans fabricated tools during the Middle Paleolithic period in Europe and Africa. East Asia, during that same time, was considered less advanced. A new ...

At a site in Kenya, archaeologists recently unearthed layer upon layer of stone stools from deposits that span 300,000 years, and include a period of intense environmental upheaval. The oldest tools ...

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Blade cores from the upper cultural layer of Site 2 at Xinmiaozhuang site in Nihewan Basin, Zhangjiakou, Hebei province. [Photo provided to chinadaily.com.cn] A major piece of evidence that sheds ...

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, ...