At 3.3 million years old, tools unearthed at the Lomekwi 3 excavation site in Kenya, like the one pictured above, represent the oldest known evidence of stone tools, researchers suggest. MPK-WTAP ...

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

Human evolutionary scholars have long supposed that the earliest stone tools were made by the genus Homo and that this technological development was directly linked to climate change and the spread of ...

Excavations in an arid, hilly part of East Africa have uncovered 3.3-million-year-old stone tools, by far the oldest such implements found to date. Hominids at Kenya’s Lomekwi 3 site made rocks into ...

Archaeologists Take Wrong Turn, Find World's Oldest Stone Tools [Update] Archaeologists working in the Kenyan Rift Valley have discovered the oldest known stone tools in the world. Dated to around 3.3 ...

STONY BROOK, NEW YORK—Stone tools from northern Kenya have been dated to 3.3 million years ago, making them 700,000 years older than Oldowan artifacts. Louise Leakey and her team at the Turkana Basin ...

Discover the oldest stone tools in Kenya, dating back 3.3 million years, found at Lomekwi 3 near Lake Turkana. The obvious implication is that stone tools were invented and used by multiple lineages ...

Excavating stone artifacts that date from 3.3 million years ago in Kenya. MPK-WTAP, CC BY-NC-ND On the morning of July 9 2011, we were climbing a remote hill near the western shore of Lake Turkana in ...