What the tools say about early resilience Across all the lines of evidence, a specific narrative unfolds – during a time of radical climate fluctuations, early hominins secured their survival in a ...

Archeologists know early humans used stone to make tools long before the time of Homo sapiens. But a new discovery out this week in Nature... Early humans made tools from bones 1 million years sooner ...

For millions of years, early human ancestors relied on stone tools to shape their world. The discovery of a collection of 27 standardized bone tools dating back 1.5 million years challenges long-held ...

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 ...

Our prehistoric human ancestors relied on deliberately modified and sharpened stone tools as early as 3.3 million years ago. The selection of rock type depended on how easily the material could be ...