Researchers discovered a 12,900-year-old hunter-gatherer layer containing a hearth, stone tools, and personal ornaments in Koskarlı Cave near Trabzon, Turkey, providing rare evidence of Epipalaeolithic human activity in the eastern Black Sea region.
A 500,000-year-old elephant bone tool from the Boxgrove site in southern England shows early humans selectively used durable animal remains to craft and maintain flint handaxes, demonstrating advanced planning and technological sophistication.
New evidence suggests Paranthropus, robust ancient African hominins with large jaws and small brains, may have used Oldowan stone tools for processing plants and animals. Discoveries in Kenya challenge the long-held belief that toolmaking was exclusive to the Homo genus, indicating a more diverse landscape of early human innovation.
Stone tools unearthed at the Kanmuri site in Hatsukaichi, Hiroshima, exhibit characteristics similar to "early blade tool assemblages" used by Homo sapiens on the Eurasian continent's "Northern Route." This discovery, following the 2024 find of Japan's oldest tools (42,300 years old) at the same site, suggests a new understanding of human migration and dispersal routes into the Japanese archipelago.
