Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The ancestors of humans started making tools about 3.3 million years ago. First they made them out of stone, then they switched to ...

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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.

Bone artifacts discovered in Tanzania push back the earliest known date of bone tool technology by over a million years. In Olduvai Gorge, archaeologists have discovered a range of bone tools thought ...

Oldowan stone tools made from a variety of raw materials sourced more than 6 miles away from where they were found in southwestern Kenya. The development of the Oldowan toolkit made it possible for ...

Before this discovery, led by a CSIC team, it was thought that the systematic use of bone tools happened a million years later “This discovery leads us to believe that early humans expanded ...

Our prehistoric human ancestors relied on deliberately modified and sharpened stone tools as early as 3.3 million years ago. The selection of rock type depended on how easily the material could be ...