In the past few months I’ve been researching the human evolutionary timeline and I’ve been wondering about this one thing.. the oldest stone tools, when were the first stone tools created? Not just ...

Oldowan Tools Push the Timeline Back Before the Nyayanga discovery, the oldest known Oldowan tools were found in Ethiopia, dated to around 2.6 million years ago.

Spheroids and battered stones form an integral part of the Acheulean and coeval Developed Oldowan at most African Early Stone Age sites. This was recognized early in the development of prehistoric ...

Oldowan Tools Push the Timeline Back Before the Nyayanga discovery, the oldest known Oldowan tools were found in Ethiopia, dated to around 2.6 million years ago. The tools uncovered in Kenya, however, ...

By exploring caves, rock shelters, open-air camps, and later permanent settlements, Stone Age archaeologists gain valuable insights into how hunter-gatherer and early farming communities organized ...