On a lakeside peninsula in Eastern Africa, archaeologists have found clues about a society that lived there over 3 million years ago. The Homa Peninsula, in Kenya, is part of the East African Rift ...

The very first humans millions of years ago may have been inventors, according to a discovery in northwest Kenya. Researchers have found that the primitive humans who lived 2.75 million years ago at ...

An analysis looking at the hand bones of australopithecines, apes and humans reveals that tool use likely evolved before the Homo genus arose. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn ...

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 ...

At a site in Kenya, archaeologists recently unearthed layer upon layer of stone stools from deposits that span 300,000 years, and include a period of intense environmental upheaval. The oldest tools ...

New discoveries made in Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania by an international team led by Ignacio de la Torre, CSIC-Spanish National Research Council, push back the archaeological record of bone-tool ...