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

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

Scientists have discovered what they believe to be an 1.8-million-year-old jawbone from an early species of human.

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 ...

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.

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.

The tools are similar to early human stone technology discoveries made before on Sulawesi and other Indonesian islands as well as early hominin sites in Africa, he added.