Old beliefs about early human behavior in East Asia are being challenged by the discovery of a richly-layered archaeological ...

Used by our early human ancestors around 430,000 years ago, the earliest known hand-held wooden tools have been uncovered by ...

"Researchers have argued for decades that while hominins in Africa and western Europe demonstrated significant technological ...

An international team has discovered the earliest known hand-held wooden tools used by humans. A study jointly led by ...

Researchers identified early handled tools that archeologists previously thought were not created in East Asia until ...

Researchers say two artifacts discovered along a lakeshore in Greece are the oldest known wooden tools yet uncovered, dating back about 430,000 years.

Archaeologists working in southern Greece have identified wooden tools that appear to be the oldest of their kind ever found.

A roughly 500,000-year-old elephant bone hammer has been discovered in Boxgrove, England. This find ...

The Nyayanga excavation site in Kenya, in July 2025. Fossils and Oldowan tools have been excavated from the tan and reddish-brown sediments, which date to more than 2.6 million years old. T. W.

In the technical description, the authors emphasize that the skeleton includes clavicle and shoulder-blade fragments, both upper arms, both forearms, plus part of the sacrum and hip bones - rare ...

The finding, along with the discovery of a 500,000-year-old hammer made of bone, indicates that our human ancestors were ...