At 3.3 million years old, tools unearthed at the Lomekwi 3 excavation site in Kenya, like the one pictured above, represent the oldest known evidence of stone tools, researchers suggest. MPK-WTAP ...
Human evolutionary scholars have long supposed that the earliest stone tools were made by the genus Homo and that this technological development was directly linked to climate change and the spread of ...
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Oldowan Tools Saw Early Humans Through 300,000 Years Of Fire, Drought, And Shifting Climates, New Site Reveals
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 ...
Excavations in an arid, hilly part of East Africa have uncovered 3.3-million-year-old stone tools, by far the oldest such implements found to date. Hominids at Kenya’s Lomekwi 3 site made rocks into ...
Researcher Sonia Harmand holds one of the several stone tools found at the Lomekwi site near Kenya's Lake Turkana; at 3.3 million years old, they are the earliest stone tools ever found.MPK-WTAP The ...
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