A Kenyan site reveals early humans made and used the same Oldowan stone tools for 300,000 years, showing remarkable stability ...

The very first humans millions of years ago may have been inventors, according to a discovery in northwest Kenya. Researchers ...

“The fossil and plant records tell an incredible story,” said Rahab N. Kinyanjui from the National Museums of Kenya. “As the ...

Long before cities or farms, the earliest humans were standing in a changing northern Kenyan landscape, striking stone to ...

We may be witnessing the moment when our ancestors first defied a hostile world, using the same tools in the same place for ...

New evidence is emerging in Kenya of early humans crafting stone tools for nearly 300,000 years during the Pliocene, despite ...

The Olduvai Gorge in Tanzania, a toponym that gives its name to an entire technological era of humanity, the Oldowan, must ...

An international team of archaeologists has found evidence at the Namorotunga site in Kenya that early humans, 2.75 million ...

Among some people, it changed their lifestyles, brought comfort in daily lives, improved health, education, and business.

A new genetic study concludes that humans living 1.2 million years ago were too few to populate three continents, contrary to popular opinion. The genetic evidence suggests 1.2 million years ago the ...

An international team of researchers has unearthed an early human skull unlike any other in the fossil record — and their analysis suggests we may have to add another branch to the evolutionary tree.