They also push back the earliest date for Oldowan technology—a tradition of toolmaking in eastern Africa dating to the early Paleolithic—by hundreds of thousands of years. But with this new ...

The Oldowan stones are believed to be the oldest known examples of stone tool industry in the world. Their development around 2-3 million years ago represents a significant moment in our evolutionary ...

In this video, we explore the timeline of human evolution, specifically focusing on the creation of the first stone tools.

Known as the Oldowan people, the culture responsible for the bone artifacts was already known for their use of stone tools dating back to 2.5 million years ago. The newly identified bone artifacts ...

That includes the Oldowan culture, which is responsible for stone artefacts found at the Olduvai Gorge. This culture is believed to have lived between 2.6 and 1.5 million years ago. And they're ...

CBS Saturday Morning Archeologist Tom Plummer and his colleagues believe the newly found knives, part of an Oldowan tool kit, the oldest recorded stone utility on record, hold clues about the ...

The meat would then be pounded between stones to tenderize it. The knife and stones are known as the Oldowan tool kit, and likely set the stage for further technology advancement down the line.

Modern chimpanzees select rock tools in similar ways to Oldowan hominins, early humans who used stone tools that date back to around 2.5 million years ago. According to a new study, these ...

Oldowan tools Named after the Olduvai Gorge in Tanzania, the Oldowan tools date to about 2.3 million years ago. These are some of the earliest evidence of the genus Homo’s tool use.

This earliest known form of tool-making — dubbed Oldowan tools — over a very long period of time lent to more sophisticated Acheulean tools such as highly symmetrical pear-shaped handaxes.