Three-million-year-old tools found in Kenya reveal early humans' ability to cut food, butcher meat, and adapt to new diets.

Kenya’s Homa peninsula is home to several artifacts of early humanity, most notably the remains of Lucy, a being with mixed ...

The meat would then be pounded between stones to tenderize it. The knife and stones are known as the Oldowan tool kit, and ...

UNBELIEVABLE three-million-year-old razor-sharp vegetable peelers used by the world’s oldest humans have been discovered. The ...

"I think the Oldowan technology is probably the most important technological innovation that ever happened in human history." ...

A study of tool use among chimps, our closest living relatives, has cast light on the human evolutionary journey.

Oldowan core, Koobi Fora, Kenya (First time period, below baselines). Disclaimer: AAAS and EurekAlert! are not responsible for the accuracy of news releases posted to EurekAlert! by contributing ...

The tools are known as the Oldowan tool kit, which previously only spanned from 1.7 million years to 2.9 million years ago. Lead archaeologist Tom Plummer suggested that the tools found paved the ...

Part of an Oldowan tool kit, the tools are a glimpse into the people who lived in the region some 3 million years ago and how they lived. And what's more the peeling tools are said to be as sharp ...

An international team of paleobiologists, anthropologists and behavioral scientists has found that the process used by modern ...

Early stone toolmaking marks an important juncture in evolution. The Oldowan stone tools from Hadar, Ethiopia, are among the oldest known, dating back 2.3 million years. Shown from various angles ...

Scientists had previously thought that Oldowan tools, a kind of simple stone implement, were only used by ancestors of Homo Sapiens, a grouping that includes our species and our closest relatives.