New study suggests homo habilis were not master predators and were hunted by leopards around 2 million years ago Homo habilis ...
Around 2 million years ago, prehistoric humans in East Africa turned the tables on the carnivores that had previously ...
Oldowan stone tools made from a variety of raw materials sourced more than 6 miles away from where they were found in southwestern Kenya. In the 1930s, archaeologists discovered the first Oldowan ...
Oldowan tools are some of the oldest known in the archaeological record; made of conveniently shaped rocks or crafted from knapped stones, these tools made it possible for hominin species to survive ...
Researchers found that Oldowan technology - the earliest known stone tool industry - was older and more widespread than previously thought. Their findings were published on Thursday in a peer-reviewed ...
The South African Archaeological Bulletin, Vol. 32, No. 126 (Dec., 1977), pp. 113-126 (14 pages) Attribute data have been collected on Oldowan and Lower Acheulean tools--choppers and scrapers--from a ...
Journal of Anthropological Research, Vol. 47, No. 2, A Quarter Century of Paleoanthropology: Views from the U.S.A. (Summer, 1991), pp. 129-151 (23 pages) Paleoanthropologists, while expending great ...
Scientists have unearthed what are likely the oldest-known examples of relatively ‘sophisticated’ stone tools at a dig on the shores of Lake Victoria in Kenya. The tools belong to a type known as the ...
Hominin reliance on Oldowan stone tools—which appear from 2.5 mya and are believed to have been socially transmitted—has been hypothesized to have led to the evolution of teaching and language. Here ...
The discovery of a 3 million-year-old toolkit suggests that humans were not actually the first to craft and use utensils. Researchers believe that an early evolutionary relative called Paranthropus ...
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