If you crossed paths with Homo ergaster on an East African plain some 1.5 million to 2 million years ago, its silhouette might look a bit familiar. Long legs, a narrow torso, and a heat-adapted frame ...

About 170 years ago, a large bundle of stone tools was deliberately buried close to a waterhole in the remote Australian ...

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Imagine early humans meticulously crafting stone tools for nearly 300,000 years, all while contending with recurring wildfires, droughts, and dramatic environmental shifts. A study published in Nature ...

At a site in Kenya, archaeologists recently unearthed layer upon layer of stone stools from deposits that span 300,000 years, and include a period of intense environmental upheaval. The oldest tools ...

Researchers excavating at a site in northern Tanzania’s Olduvai Gorge have unearthed bone implements made by human ancestors 1.5 million years ago. This is around a million years earlier than scholars ...

The research is evidence that long-term stability in a technology does not necessarily indicate stagnation. In fact, it may reveal a powerful fit between a working tool and the challenges of daily ...

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Stone tool analysis of sites in Southeast Asia provided evidence that the area was a technological leader in seafaring. Archaeology supports that 40,000 years ago, the people living in Southeast Asia ...

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Introduction -- Stone tool technology and the organizational approach -- The organization of Early Stone Age lithic technology -- The organization of Middle Stone Age (MSA) lithic technology -- Fear ...

Ailsa Chang speaks with David Braun, an archeologist, about his team's discovery of a site in Kenya that suggests human ancestors built tools continuously much earlier than previously thought.