Early humans relied on simple stone tools for 300,000 years in a changing east African landscape

Our prehistoric human ancestors relied on deliberately modified and sharpened stone tools as early as 3.3 million years ago.

These 160,000-Year-Old Tools Are Rewriting Human History

Ancient tools from central China are flipping the script, revealing early humans were far more innovative than history once gave them credit for.

500,000-year-old elephant bone tool reveals advanced planning and skill in early human ancestors

The earliest hominins in Europe shared their environment with large mammals and elephants were some of the largest animals ...

Hafted stone tools in China suggest early hominins were more inventive than thought

A newly excavated archaeological site in central China is reshaping long-held assumptions about early hominin behavior in ...
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160,000-year-old sophisticated stone tools discovered in China may not have been made by Homo sapiens

Archaeologists have found the oldest known evidence of hafted tools in East Asia, and they challenge a previously held ...
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Stone Tools Used For 300,000 Years Straight: Early Humans’ Tech Wasn’t Primitive — It Was Near Perfect

Our ancient ancestors weren’t fumbling with crude rocks. A groundbreaking archaeological discovery in Kenya reveals they had mastered a stone tool technology so effective that they stuck with it for ...