The very first humans millions of years ago may have been inventors, according to a discovery in northwest Kenya. Researchers ...

Long before the first sparks of civilization — or even humanity as we know it — our ancestors were already inventors. On the ...

New fossils reveal the hand bones of Paranthropus boisei, proving this early human ancestor could make and use tools.

An "incredible discovery" and a "chance finding" is how a family have described uncovering a prehistoric hand axe. Mel ...

Stone tools reveal that the First Americans followed a coastal route from East Asia, linking both sides of the Pacific during the Ice Age.

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 ...

This stone tool found on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi, along with six others, suggest hominins were present on the island and making tools far earlier than thought. M. W. Moore, Screenshot via ...

The discovery of stone tools dating to at least 1.04 million years ago at the Early Pleistocene site of Calio on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi indicates that early hominins made a major deep-sea ...

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, ...

We humans are nothing if not inventive. Our innovations have come to underpin virtually every facet of daily life—from what we eat to how we communicate. This ingenuity is intrinsically linked to both ...