For much of the last century, the story of early technology seemed straightforward. The genus Homo made stone tools, and ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. If *Homo habilis* was often chomped by leopards, it probably wasn't the top predator. Made with AI (DALL-E 4) Almost 2 million ...

The oldest known deliberately made stone tools were discovered at Lomekwi 3 in West Turkana, Kenya, and date to about 3.3 ...

Homo habilis was thought to be the first hominin to use stone tools for hunting and processing meat, but they might have been prey instead of predators. If H. habilis really had begun the shift ...

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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A new study using artificial intelligence shows Homo habilis was still preyed upon by leopards 2 million years ago. (CREDIT: Rice ...

Far up in the Ethiopian highlands, the resounding strike of stone against stone was probably a familiar one two million years ago. Ancient hominids chipped away to create simple tools: hammerstones ...

Chimpanzees make use of cobbles to break nuts, but they do not modify them. Homo habilis was one of the earliest hominin species that intentionally modified cobbles to manufacture the crude, Mode One ...

Archaeologists, in at least one way, are lucky: Nearly all of the stone tools ever made are still in existence. The first stone tools are associated with Homo habilis and usually date to about 2.5 ...

(CNN) — The discovery of 330 stone artifacts in Kenya that date back 2.9 million years is throwing light on a key question in human evolution — who first used stone tools? Scientists unearthed ...