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Kenyan archeologists find 2.9 million years old stone tools believed to be used by the earliest humans.

Oldowan tools were used to process many foods, including ancient hippopotamuses, at least 600,000 years earlier than previously thought.

Archaeologists in Kenya have dug up some of the oldest stone tools ever found, but who used them is a mystery. In the past, scientists assumed that our direct ancestors were the only toolmakers.

Stone Age discovery fuels mystery of who made early tools

The earliest evidence of human ancestors using tools up to three million years ago-before the harnessing of fire-has been unearthed in Kenya.

An extinct species of hominin, Paranthropus, may have created the oldest known stone tools on Earth!

Nyayanga site artefacts represent the oldest-known examples of a type of stone technology, called the Oldowan toolkit.

The discovery of teeth from the muscular-jawed Paranthropus alongside these stone tools begs the question of whether it might have been that lineage rather than the Homo genus that was the architect of the earliest Oldowan stone tools.

NEW YORK—Archaeologists in Kenya have dug up some of the oldest stone tools ever found, but who used ...