But while the stone tools themselves are well known among archaeologists ... But now it is accepted that someone like Homo habilis – the “handy man” – may have created them. This genus of extinct ...

STONE tools, first made about 2.6 million years ... were barely human at all – they were a human-like species called Homo habilis (‘skilful person’). They lived a hard life hunting and ...

as well as Paranthropus and Homo habilis. McNabb agreed it was too early to say for sure that these relatively sophisticated stone tools predated the earliest humans but said the discovery was ...

A team of archaeologists recently applied high-tech engineering tests to stone tools, and the results suggest that even very early members of our genus, like Homo habilis, knew how to select rocks ...

But there may well be other Homo ancestors yet to be named and discovered. Notably, the world’s oldest known stone tools now appear more than 3 million years ago in the fossil record, which seems to ...

Before this discovery, Homo habilis was thought to be the first species to use stone tools The scientists do not know who made the tools discovered in Kenya. Until now, some thought that Homo ...

Just less than two and a half million years ago, in the Early Pleistocene epoch of Eastern Africa, a group of hairy, bipedal apes evolved, and soon after, began to use basic stone tools.

are covered in diagonal scratches that were most likely made when this Homo habilis individual, perhaps a female, accidentally nicked her teeth with a stone tool held in her right hand.

The stone tools are significant because one attribute ... and colleagues creating Homo habilis, which they claimed was the earliest member of the genus. Even today, paleoanthropologists believe ...

When paleoanthropologist Louis Leakey discovered the 1.8 million-year-old Homo habilis in 1964, it was thought to be our first human ancestor. Because of its close proximity to stone tools ...