The study found that early humans passed down tool-making skills for hundreds of thousands of years in Kenya as their climate ...

A Kenyan site reveals early humans made and used the same Oldowan stone tools for 300,000 years, showing remarkable stability through change.

Long before the first sparks of civilization — or even humanity as we know it — our ancestors were already inventors. On the ancient riverbanks of Kenya’s Turkana Basin, nearly three million years ago ...

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.

A new site in one of the most important basins for humanity’s evolution has provided evidence of occupation over an unprecedented period. Across 300,000 years, the toolmakers maintained a similar ...

We may be witnessing the moment when our ancestors first defied a hostile world, using the same tools in the same place for ...

Before 2.75 million years ago, the Namorotukunan area featured lush wetlands with abundant palms and sedges, with mean annual precipitation reaching approximately 855 millimeters per year. However, ...

Long before cities or farms, the earliest humans were standing in a changing northern Kenyan landscape, striking stone to stone with steady hands. Their world was noisy with wind, heat, wildfires, and ...

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

Evidence from a remote site on Sulawesi reveals that ancient human relatives crossed a deep ocean barrier more than a million years ago. The discovery extends the earliest known human movements in ...