In the past few months I’ve been researching the human evolutionary timeline and I’ve been wondering about this one thing..

The consequence of our ancestors’ innovating the sharper tools of the Oldowan is that all sorts of food in the African savanna, from the grasslands to the wetlands, became newly available ...

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 Oldowan culture, characterized by the knapping of sharp stone flakes, preceded the Acheulean, which introduced the iconic hand axes. The inclusion of bone tools in this process suggests that the ...

OUR ancient ancestors were churning out bone tools 1.5 million years ago – a million years earlier than we thought. Dozens of tools belonging to the handy lot have been found, rewriting the ...

UNBELIEVABLE three-million-year-old razor-sharp vegetable peelers used by the world’s oldest humans have been discovered. The innovative tools were made from smashing stones together – … ...

On a lakeside peninsula in Eastern Africa, archaeologists have found clues about a society that lived there over 3 million years ago.

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 ...

A new study finds that around two million years ago, Homo Erectus lived at high altitudes and produced both Oldowan and Acheulean tools.

Macaques using stones to open oil palm nuts can accidentally create stone flakes that look like early human tools ...