Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The evidence shows that early hominins returned to the same area again and again between 2.75 and 2.44 million years ago. (CREDIT: ...

Roughly 476,000 years ago, early human ancestors were already building wooden structures, far earlier than scientists thought ...

Researchers believe they’ve found the earliest known use of hand-held wooden tools in human history. The team points to artifacts from Greece of crafted pieces of alder and either willow or poplar, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Handaxe from the Boxgrove paleosol horizon (locality Q2/GTP 17). (CREDIT: Science Advances) The earliest hominins in Europe shared ...

Ailsa Chang speaks with David Braun, an archeologist, about his team's discovery of a site in Kenya that suggests human ancestors built tools continuously much earlier than previously thought. So when ...

The story of human evolution may need a rewrite after 2.12-million-year-old tools were found in central China. The most ancient of these tools -- a collection of hammerstones, pointed pieces and ...

(CN) — Stone tools uncovered in central China suggest early humans there were far more inventive than scientists once believed, making complex tools tens of thousands of years earlier than expected.

Humans were manipulating wood to make tools 40,000 years earlier than we had previously thought. Researchers discovered two tools—one made of alder and the other of either willow or poplar—from ...