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Stone tools, 2.6 million to 3 million years old, discovered recently in Kenya, along with teeth belonging to the hominin Paranthropus and signs of the butchering of an ancient hippopotamus, pose ...

Researchers found that Oldowan technology - the earliest known stone tool industry - was older and more widespread than previously thought. Their findings were published on Thursday in a peer-reviewed ...

Scientists have a mystery on their hands after the discovery of 330 stone tools about 2.9 million years old at a site in Kenya, along Lake Victoria's shores, that were used to butcher animals, ...

Oldowan tools are some of the oldest known in the archaeological record; made of conveniently shaped rocks or crafted from knapped stones, these tools made it possible for hominin species to survive ...

A fossil hippo skeleton and associated Oldowan artifacts were exposed at the Nyayanga site. T.W. Plummer, Homa Peninsula Paleoanthropological Project The dead hippo represented a stroke of luck to our ...

Learn how early hominins crafted the same sharp-edged Oldowan tools through 300,000 years of climate change, revealing one of the longest-lasting technologies in human history. In a world of shifting ...

These tools are classified as Oldowan, the earliest known stone tool technology, previously thought to be linked exclusively to the genus Homo. What makes this discovery so significant is that the ...

The discovery of a 3 million-year-old toolkit suggests that humans were not actually the first to craft and use utensils. Researchers believe that an early evolutionary relative called Paranthropus ...

Scientists have unearthed what are likely the oldest-known examples of relatively ‘sophisticated’ stone tools at a dig on the shores of Lake Victoria in Kenya. The tools belong to a type known as the ...