A handful of stone tools found on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi has pushed back the date that human relatives arrived in the region.

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 ...

Buried for 300,000 years, hundreds of prehistoric tools have been uncovered in a Kent sinkhole—including hand axes over a foot long. This could be Britain’s oldest evidence of early human ingenuity.