Along the shores of Africa's Lake Victoria in Kenya roughly 2.9 million years ago, early human ancestors used some of the oldest stone tools ever found to butcher hippos and pound plant material, ...

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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Oldowan stone tools made from a variety of raw materials sourced more than 6 miles away from where they were found in southwestern ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - 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 ...

A toolkit used by human ancestors discovered by researchers along the shores of Kenya’s Lake Victoria could be the oldest ever found, according to a study published Thursday in Science, leading ...

NEW YORK (AP) — Archaeologists in Kenya have dug up some of the oldest stone tools ever found, but who used them is a mystery. In the past, scientists assumed that our direct ancestors were the only ...

“The diversity of activities that used stone tools suggests that even at this early stage of cultural development, stone tools enhanced the adaptability of the hominins using them.” The researchers ...

In southwestern Kenya more than 2.6 million years ago, ancient humans wielded an array of stone tools—known collectively as the Oldowan toolkit—to pound plant material and carve up large prey such as ...

A team of paleontologist recently discovered a set of stone axes that are believed to be the oldest complex tools ever found. At 1.76 million years old, they are some of the oldest examples of ...

Far up in the Ethiopian highlands, the resounding strike of stone against stone was probably a familiar one two million years ago. Ancient hominids chipped away to create simple tools: hammerstones ...

Nyayanga site being excavated in July 2016. Credit: J.S. Oliver, Homa Peninsula Paleoanthropology Project “The assumption among researchers has long been that only the genus Homo, to which humans ...