A new study provides a clearer timeline for one of the most significant prehistoric sites worldwide for the study of human ...

Learn about the archaeological site of 'Ubeidiya, now confirmed as one of the oldest areas that humans occupied outside of Africa.

Researchers used three different methods to date the site, challenging the preexisting notion of the site being between 1.2 and 1.6 million years old.

Far up in the Ethiopian highlands, the resounding strike of stone against stone was probably a familiar one two million years ago. Ancient hominids chipped away to create simple tools: hammerstones ...

A total of 27 bone tools found at Tanzania's Olduvai Gorge Technology breakthrough is earlier than previously thought Researchers suspect tool maker was species Homo erectus The 27 tools, discovered ...

Early Acheulean stone tools and fossil faunas from the Dauqara formation, Upper Zarqa Valley, Jordanian Plateau / Fabio Parenti ... [et al.] -- Preliminary results from the Acheulian site of Mashariʼa ...

Along the shores of Africa's Lake Victoria in Kenya roughly 2.9 million years ago, early human ancestors used some of the oldest stone tools ever found to butcher hippos and pound plant material, ...

Before this discovery, led by a CSIC team, it was thought that the systematic use of bone tools happened a million years later “This discovery leads us to believe that early humans expanded ...