160,000-year-old sophisticated stone tools discovered in China may not have been made by Homo sapiens

Archaeologists have found the oldest known evidence of hafted tools in East Asia, and they challenge a previously held ...
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160,000-Year-Old Stone Tools Reveal Advanced Tool Making in East Asia

Learn how archaeologists dated stone tools from central China and what they reveal about when early humans in Asia began using complex tools.

Early humans relied on simple stone tools for 300,000 years in a changing east African landscape

Our prehistoric human ancestors relied on deliberately modified and sharpened stone tools as early as 3.3 million years ago.
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Study finds human ancestors made tools continuously for 300,000 years

Ailsa Chang speaks with David Braun, an archeologist, about his team's discovery of a site in Kenya that suggests human ancestors built tools continuously much earlier than previously thought. So ...

500,000-year-old elephant bone tool reveals advanced planning and skill in early human ancestors

The earliest hominins in Europe shared their environment with large mammals and elephants were some of the largest animals ...