According to Finestone, Nyayanga stones are significantly older than other known examples of ancient stone transport.

In 2018, scientists made a discovery of stone tools at Ain Boucherit, Algeria, dated to approximately 2.4 million years ago. The find challenges our previously held notions about the development ...

In addition to the ancient jawbone, scientists uncovered fossils from a sabre-toothed tiger, wolf, elephant and giraffe along ...

Ancient stone tools found on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi represent the oldest evidence for humans living there 1 million years ago.

The evolution of stone tool technology and of language are likely to have been dialectically linked. Thus, the centrality of technology to human evolution is strengthened. This is not a new idea.

New research finds early human ancestors during the Stone Age were more picky about the rocks they used for making tools than ...

Sharp stone technology chipped over three million years allowed early humans to exploit animal and plant food resources. But how did the production of stone tools -- called 'knapping' -- start ...

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 ...

Archaeologists previously discovered similar rocks that hominins transported to a separate, 2-million-year-old site on the ...

Stone tools found in Kenya show early humans moved raw materials across long distances 600,000 years earlier than expected.