Recent discoveries of fossils have provided evidence suggesting intelligent tool use among pre-human species. This groundbreaking research has the potential to reshape our understanding of early ...

Recent discoveries have suggested that tool-making, an indicator of intelligence, was practiced by pre-human species millions of years prior to the evolution of Homo sapiens. This revelation has the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Stone tools found on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi are more than 1 million years old. - M W Moore Archaeologists have ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A 430,000-year-old wooden tool from Greece, top, that may have been used for digging and various angles of the tool, below.

This is an extract from Our Human Story, our newsletter about the revolution in archaeology. Sign up to receive it in your inbox every month. When writing headlines for stories about human evolution, ...

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, ...

This has been quite the wild year in human evolution stories. Our relatives, living and extinct, got a lot of attention—from new developments in ape cognition to an expanded perspective of a ...

The earliest known hand-held wooden tools, used by our early human ancestors around 430,000 years ago, have been uncovered by researchers at an archeological site in Greece. One is made from the trunk ...

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 ...