Sara Watson works for the FIeld Museum of Natural History and Indiana State University The Earth of the last Ice Age (about 26,000 to 19,000 years ago) was very different from today’s world. In the ...

The Pahon Cave in Gabon offers archaeologists a well-preserved look into the Late Stone Age time period in central Africa, thanks to the stratified layers of guano-based sediment. This is in contrast ...

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 ...

Have you ever found yourself in a museum’s gallery of human origins, staring at a glass case full of rocks labeled “stone tools,” muttering under your breath, “How do they know it’s not just any old ...

Our ancient ancestors weren’t fumbling with crude rocks. A groundbreaking archaeological discovery in Kenya reveals they had mastered a stone tool technology so effective that they stuck with it for ...

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Someone born near the start of the 20th century could have witnessed the dawn of commercial flight, the creation of nuclear weapons, the moon landing and even the early growth ...