A team of archeologists in South Africa had to climb to new heights to find an important set of tools made by humans about 20,000 years ago. These newly discovered stone tools were embedded in a cave ...

The discovery drastically recontextualizes the region’s archaeological history. Archaeologists determined that seven stone tools found on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi date back to somewhere ...

Archaeologists in southwestern Kenya have uncovered stone tools that are estimated to be up to 3 million years old. These tools, which may be the oldest of their kind ever discovered, were found near ...

This stone tool found on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi, along with six others, suggest hominins were present on the island and making tools far earlier than thought. M. W. Moore / Griffith ...

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The oldest handmade stone tools discovered yet predate any known humans and may have been wielded by an as-yet-unknown species, researchers say. The 3.3-million-year-old stone artifacts are the first ...

Thousands of stone tools made by early humans around 20,000 years ago have been found in a cave. The "important" find reveals connections between prehistoric people, say scientists. Archaeologists ...

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 ...

The discovery of stone tools dating to at least 1.04 million years ago at the Early Pleistocene site of Calio on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi indicates that early hominins made a major deep-sea ...

Ancient human relatives moved diverse stones over substantial distances, researchers report, revealing a surprisingly high degree of forward planning 600,000 years earlier than experts previously ...

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(CNN) — Stone tools unearthed in southwest China helped a mysterious group eke out a living in a cold and harsh environment 60,000 to 50,000 years ago. But whose hands shaped them? The answer could ...