Beyond climate: Connection and mobility were key drivers in early human innovation, research suggests

A new study challenges the idea that climate change drove early human innovation. Instead, researchers find that cultural ...

Ancient stone tools in China reveal an unexpectedly early start to human technology

Old beliefs about early human behavior in East Asia are being challenged by the discovery of a richly-layered archaeological ...

Katerina Harvati, researcher, on incredible 400,000-year-old discovery: “little known aspect of the technology of early humans”

An archaeological discovery of two artifacts in southern Greece are the oldest known handheld wooden tools fashioned by early human ancestors.

Why 430,000-year-old wooden tools are changing what we know about early humans

Finds from Greece and Britain suggest early hominins were shaping wood and bone with far more intention and ingenuity than ...

World’s oldest wooden tools found in Greece push early human technology history back

Archaeologists working in southern Greece have identified wooden tools that appear to be the oldest of their kind ever found.
Greek Reporter

China’s 160,000-Year-Old Tools Reveal Early Hafting and Complex Technology

Stone tools from central China dated to 160,000 years ago show early hafting, planning and skill, reshaping views of East ...
The Conversation

Early humans relied on simple stone tools for 300,000 years in a changing east African landscape

Niguss Gitaw Baraki receives funding from the Leakey Foundation and the U.S. National Science Foundation. Dan V. Palcu Rolier's work was supported by NWO Veni grant 212.136, FAPESP grants 2018/20733-6 ...