About 50,000 years ago, humanity lost one of its last surviving hominin cousins, Homo floresiensis (also known as "the hobbit ...

Wooden artifacts unearthed at the Gantangqing site in Yunnan province. PROVIDED TO CHINA DAILY A multidisciplinary research team has announced the discovery of 300,000-year-old well-preserved wooden ...

A multidisciplinary research team has announced the discovery of 300,000-year-old well-preserved wooden artifacts at the Gantangqing site in Southwest China's Yunnan province, presenting the earliest ...

Ancient stone tools found on Sulawesi, an island in Indonesia, raises huge questions about early hominins ability to sail ...

We may be witnessing the moment when our ancestors first defied a hostile world, using the same tools in the same place for nearly 300,000 years despite the chaos of shifting climates. Picture early ...

A newly analyzed site in northern Kenya is reshaping the story of early human technology. An international team reports more than 1,200 stone tools from three stacked layers that span roughly 300,000 ...

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 ...

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New evidence is emerging in Kenya of early humans crafting stone tools for nearly 300,000 years during the Pliocene, despite extreme environmental changes like wildfires and droughts that endured ...

In A Nutshell Archaeologists discovered stone tools at three sites in Kenya spanning 300,000 years (2.75 to 2.44 million ...