Hundreds of stone tools discovered in Kenya have revealed that human relatives traveled long distances to find raw material.

A new study takes another look at some of the oldest known stone tools and suggests their makers transported materials for up ...

Oldowan stone tools made from a variety of raw materials sourced more than 6 miles away from where they were found in southwestern Kenya. The development of the Oldowan toolkit made it possible for ...

Nestled along the northern shore of Lake Burtnieks in northern Latvia, Stone Age communities used the Zvejnieki burial site ...

In addition to the ancient jawbone, scientists uncovered fossils from a sabre-toothed tiger, wolf, elephant and giraffe along with tools made of stone ...

Fossilized teeth show that two different kinds of ancient human ancestors coexisted more than 2 million years ago. One of ...

Oldowan stone tools made from a variety of raw materials sourced more than six miles away from where they were found in southwestern Kenya. In southwestern Kenya more than 2.6 million years ago, ...

The Skhul child fossil, about 140,000 years old, combines human-like and Neanderthal-like traits in the skull, jaw, and inner ear.

Archaeologists studying the vast Zvejnieki cemetery in Latvia have uncovered surprising truths about Stone Age life. Stone ...

Scientists announced Tuesday they have discovered the earliest evidence of humans using whale bones, finding weapons made from the remains of the massive mammals dating back more than 20,000 years.

Traces of color blue indigo on 34,000-year-old tools from Dzudzuana Cave reveal that early humans processed plants for dye ...

The mineralized bones are the earliest human fossil remains found so far in Western Europe ... The team also recovered animal bones with cut marks and stone tools used to butcher carcasses from the ...