WASHINGTON (AP) — Early human ancestors during the Old Stone Age were more picky about the rocks they used for making tools than previously known, according to research published Friday. Not only did ...

The very first humans millions of years ago may have been inventors, according to a discovery in northwest Kenya. Researchers have found that the primitive humans who lived 2.75 million years ago at ...

This discovery demonstrates that wooden tools were used by early humans across a broader global range (Liu et al./Science) ...

A team of international researchers led by the University of Victoria's April Nowell has discovered 250,000-year-old protein residue – the oldest ever found – extracted from stone tools used by early ...

Archaeologists have uncovered primitive sharp-edged stone tools on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi, adding another piece to an evolutionary puzzle involving mysterious ancient humans who lived in a ...

Archaeologists discovered ancient stone tools on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi, suggesting early humans were there more than a million years ago. Previously, the earliest evidence of human ...

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.

Evidence from a remote site on Sulawesi reveals that ancient human relatives crossed a deep ocean barrier more than a million years ago. The discovery extends the earliest known human movements in ...

The audio version of this article is generated by text-to-speech, a technology based on artificial intelligence. This chimpanzee is using a stick to fish for termites. New research out of the ...