Tangled up in blue: Solving an Ice Age puzzle
Stone tools from Georgia's Dzudzuana Cave reveal the earliest evidence of indigo processing, dating back 34,000 years to the Ice Age.
Ancient human relatives transported stones over long distances 600,000 years earlier than previously thought
New Leakey Foundation-supported research finds that ancient human relatives sourced raw materials for tool-making from as far as 8 miles away.
This stone tool is over 1 million years old. How did its maker get to Sulawesi without a boat?
Stone tools dating to at least 1.04 million years ago have been found on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi. This means early hominins made a major sea crossing from the Asian mainland much earlier than previously thought – and they likely didn’t have any boats.
Searching for the earliest tools
Stone tools were crucial for our ancestors' evolution and survival. When did tool innovation begin? And who were the first toolmakers?
1.5 million-year-old bone tools discovered in Tanzania shed new light on human evolution
Researchers have discovered 1.5 million-year-old tools made from the bones of large animals such as hippos and elephants.