Our prehistoric human ancestors relied on deliberately modified and sharpened stone tools as early as 3.3 million years ago.

A roughly 500,000-year-old elephant bone hammer has been discovered in Boxgrove, England. This find ...

Learn about a 500,000-year old hammer made from elephant bone, used by early humans in England to sharpen stone tools.

Thousands of slate artifacts found on the Tibetan Plateau showcase the resiliency of early humans as they fanned out of ...

Scientists Identify 60,000-Year-Old Discovery That Rewrites Early Human History ...

A palm-sized fragment of elephant bone, shaped and used as a precision tool almost half a million years ago, has been identified as the oldest known elephant-bone implement in Europe. Although the ...

This photo provided by the Homa Peninsula Paleoanthropology Project in August 2025, shows Oldowan stone tools made from a variety of raw materials sourced more than 6 miles away from where they were ...

Early humans were not just scavengers. New research shows they actively butchered elephants, transforming survival and social ...

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 ...