The Oldowan stones are believed to be the oldest known examples of stone tool industry in the world. Their development around 2-3 million years ago represents a significant moment in our ...

Humans Early hominin Paranthropus may have used sophisticated stone tools Stone tools discovered in Kenya are the oldest Oldowan-type implements found, dating back at least 2.6 million years, and ...

The ancient tools, discovered along the banks of Lake Victoria in Kenya, are likely the oldest evidence of an Oldowan toolkit.

Archaeologists have long puzzled over stone spheroids—round limestone objects found at ancient sites across the globe. These artifacts, though simple in shape, have sparked debate for generations.

Oldest examples of ‘sophisticated’ stone tools found at 2.9-million-year-old butchery site The tools were found at a site that also yielded two teeth from Paranthropus, an early hominin ...

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Article #18-20177: "Earliest known Oldowan artifacts at >2.58 Ma from Ledi-Geraru, Ethiopia, highlight early technological diversity," by David R. Braun, et al.

Beginning around two million years ago, early stone tool-making humans, known scientifically as Oldowan hominin, started to exhibit a number of physiological and ecological adaptations that ...

Examples of an Oldowan percussive tool, core and flakes from the Nyayanga site. (Top row) Percussive tool found in 2016. (Second row from top) Oldowan core found in 2017. (Bottom rows) Oldowan ...

Who Made the First Stone Tool Kits? A nearly three-million-year-old butchering site packed with animal bones, stone implements and molars from our early ancestors reignites the debate ...

Citations D.R. Braun et al. Earliest known Oldowan artifacts at >2.58 Ma from Ledi-Geraru, Ethiopia, highlight early technological diversity. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.