Archaeologists have found the oldest known evidence of hafted tools in East Asia, and they challenge a previously held ...

Learn how archaeologists dated stone tools from central China and what they reveal about when early humans in Asia began ...

Archaeologists working on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi have excavated stone tools dating to at least 1.04 million years old. The artifacts represent another puzzle piece in the enigmatic history ...

The tools include sharp-edged stone fragments that the ancient humans made from larger pebbles likely taken from nearby riverbeds. Previous research suggested that the Wallacea archipelago was ...

Ancient tools from central China are flipping the script, revealing early humans were far more innovative than history once gave them credit for.

At a site in Kenya, archaeologists recently unearthed layer upon layer of stone stools from deposits that span 300,000 years, and include a period of intense environmental upheaval. The oldest tools ...

Someone born near the start of the 20th century could have witnessed the dawn of commercial flight, the creation of nuclear weapons, the moon landing and even the early growth of the internet.

WASHINGTON (Nov. 4, 2025)--Imagine early humans meticulously crafting stone tools for nearly 300,000 years, all while contending with recurring wildfires, droughts, and dramatic environmental shifts.

FAYETTEVILLE, Ark — Professor Amelia Villaseñor, an associate professor of anthropology at the University of Arkansas, was a part of a team that discovered 2.75 million-year-old stone tools in Kenya.