In this video, I build a hobbit house using only primitive tools and materials. This is part of the "Build A Stone House" ...

Wooden artifacts unearthed at the Gantangqing site in Yunnan province. PROVIDED TO CHINA DAILY A multidisciplinary research team has announced the discovery of 300,000-year-old well-preserved wooden ...

A multidisciplinary research team has announced the discovery of 300,000-year-old well-preserved wooden artifacts at the Gantangqing site in Southwest China's Yunnan province, presenting the earliest ...

A new study has shed new light on ancient seafarers and their advanced maritime technology, challenging previous beliefs on ...

Stone tools found at Lomekwi in Kenya date to 3.3 million years ago, long before Homo sapiens or even Homo habilis existed.

A newly analyzed site in northern Kenya is reshaping the story of early human technology. An international team reports more than 1,200 stone tools from three stacked layers that span roughly 300,000 ...

Illustration by ZME Science/Midjourney (AI-generated). Long before the first sparks of civilization — or even humanity as we know it — our ancestors were already inventors. On the ancient riverbanks ...

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 ...

Why Did This Type of Stone Tool Endure for 300,000 Years in Kenya? Archaeological research from Kenya's Turkana Basin has uncovered evidence that early humans maintained a sophisticated stone ...

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 ...

Research led by David R. Braun (Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology) and Dan V. Palcu Rolier (National Institute of Marine Geology and Geo-ecology) Our ancient ancestors weren’t ...