Archaeologists working in Alaska’s middle Tanana Valley have recovered stone and ivory tools from a sealed stratigraphic layer dating to roughly 14,000 years ago, making them among the oldest worked ...

The discovery could rewrite our understanding of North American human dispersion and and provide some insight into famed Clovis culture.

The oldest handmade stone tools discovered yet predate any known humans and may have been wielded by an as-yet-unknown species, researchers say. The 3.3-million-year-old stone artifacts are the first ...

NEW YORK — By taking a wrong turn in a dry riverbed in Kenya, scientists discovered a trove of stone tools far older than any ever found before. Nobody knows who made them — or why. At 3.3 million ...

At a site in Kenya, archaeologists recently unearthed layer upon layer of stone stools from deposits that span 300,000 years, and include a period of intense environmental upheaval. The oldest tools ...

Learn about the archaeological site of 'Ubeidiya, now confirmed as one of the oldest areas that humans occupied outside of ...

Building the human story based on a few artefacts is tricky – particularly for wooden tools that don’t preserve well, or cave ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Stone tools found at Calio on Indonesia’s Sulawesi island (M W Moore) The tools include sharp-edged stone fragments that the ...