“Potentially, cultural information was transferred between early Homo and P. boisei, whereby P. boisei acquired Oldowan capabilities, but this need not be direct social learning (imitation ...

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 ...

Oldowan stone tools could have cut and pounded through it all and helped early toolmakers adapt to new places and new opportunities, whether it’s a dead hippo or a starchy root.” More deals ...

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.

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.

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 ...

The world's earliest stone technologies are likely to be older than previously thought Date: March 24, 2021 Source: University of Kent Summary: A new study has found that Oldowan and Acheulean ...

Oldowan percussive tool (top), core (second row) and flakes (bottom two rows) from the Nyayanga site T.W. Plummer, J.S. Oliver and E.M. Finestone, Homa Peninsula Paleoanthropological Project ...

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 ...

This suggests that bone tool manufacture may have played a part in the technological transition from the Oldowan culture to the Acheulean culture that followed it, which started around 1.7 million ...