Rethinking The Origins Of Stone Tool Use For decades, East Africa's Olduvai Gorge and similar sites were seen as the center of early toolmaking. The Oldowan tools found there date back roughly 2.6 ...

Hundreds of stone tools discovered in Kenya have revealed that human relatives traveled long distances to find raw material.

Discovery in China of tools called Quina scrapers suggests the people of East Asia were as inventive and flexible with technology during the Middle Paleolithic era as those in other parts of the ...

A new study takes another look at some of the oldest known stone tools and suggests their makers transported materials for up ...

The implication of these findings is that the development of stone tool technology on which human ancestors became increasingly dependent began much earlier than had previously been known.

Archaeologists in China’s Yunnan province unearthed stone tools crafted in a style associated with Neanderthals that hasn’t previously been found in East Asia, study says.

Have you ever found yourself in a museum's gallery of human origins, staring at a glass case full of rocks labeled "stone tools," muttering under your breath, "How do they know it's not just any ...