George Washington University archaeologist David Braun and his colleagues recently unearthed stone tools from a 2.75 ...

Long before cities or farms, the earliest humans were standing in a changing northern Kenyan landscape, striking stone to ...

A new site in one of the most important basins for humanity’s evolution has provided evidence of occupation over an ...

“But I think that the research at Nyayanga suggests that there is a greater diversity of hominins making early stone tools than previously thought.” She says the artifacts at Nyayanga also underscore ...

The site sits within sediments that record major environmental upheaval in East Africa during the late Pliocene. Around 3.44 ...

Oldowan stone tools made from a variety of raw materials sourced more than six miles away from where they were found in southwestern Kenya. In southwestern Kenya more than 2.6 million years ago, ...

New fossils reveal the hand bones of Paranthropus boisei, proving this early human ancestor could make and use tools.

While early human ancestors started making stone tools at least 2.6 million years ago, bone tools took much longer to appear. The earliest signs of a regular use of bone tools hadn’t shown up in the ...

The Nyayanga excavation site in Kenya, in July 2025. Fossils and Oldowan tools have been excavated from the tan and reddish-brown sediments, which date to more than 2.6 million years old. T. W.