The Oldowan stones are believed to be the oldest known examples of stone tool industry in the world. Their development around ...

It's possible Homo erectus ate shellfish and used the remaining shells for making tools, she said. "We found at least one that was very clearly [and] deliberately modified so that a sharp edge was ...

An illustration of the Homo erectus child with her ... was found with a variety of Oldowan tools. These tool types, which our distant ancestors began making at least 2.6 million years ago, were ...

The find suggests early humans had more advanced tool-making skills ... including Homo erectus, Homo habilis, and Paranthropus boisei. While it is unclear which species made the tools, researchers ...

We are just one branch of a diverse human family tree. Aside from Neanderthals, who were they – and why did we replace them?

Researchers from Tel Aviv University have solved a longstanding mystery about the extensive prehistoric stone quarrying and tool-making ... why did Homo erectus repeatedly visit the same locations to ...

Archaeologists have uncovered a collection of bone tools in northern Tanzania that were shaped by ancient human ancestors 1.5 million years ago, making ... such as Homo habilis, Homo erectus ...

Dozens of tools ... making more tools. And scientists also found tools shaped on-site from hippopotamus bones. Eastern Africa is where some of the earliest evidence of tool use by the first Genus ...

Advanced stone tool strategies: Researchers found that Homo erectus utilized Acheulean tools, including bifacial handaxes and cleavers, strategically sourcing raw materials from distant locations ...

Homo floresiensis, a diminutive hominin dubbed ... floresiensis, they also uncovered stone tools and animal remains in the same sediment layers of the Liang Bua cave. The tools were simple and ...

A million years ago, a species known as Homo erectus most likely survived in an ... The hominins also adapted by upgrading their tools. They took more care when chipping flakes from stones to ...