The tools date back to around 2.9 million years ago, when early humans used them to butcher hippos for their meat, the researchers report. Older stone tools have been found in Kenya, dating back ...

Emma Finestone, associate curator at the Cleveland Museum of Natural History, will be using a federal grant to continue her studies of Early Stone Age tools in Africa.

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A new study has shown that as early as the Stone Age, people in Africa traveled long distances to procure colorful stone, the ...

Archaeologists from the Field Museum unearthed thousands of ancient stone tools in a cave overlooking the ocean on the southern coast of South Africa, revealing sophisticated fabrication ...

New York — 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 ...

NEW YORK – 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 ...

“Stone tools are allowing them, even at this really early date, to extract a lot of resources from the environment,” Plummer said. “If you can butcher a hippo, you can butcher pretty much ...

Archaeologists in Kenya have dug up some of the oldest stone tools ever found, dating back to around 2.9 million years ago, but who used them is a mystery, according to a study published in the ...