Lower Paleolithic or Early Stone Age

The Nachukui Formation is a geological formation in the Lake Turkana region of Kenya, where several important Lower Paleolithic sites have been found.

Kokiselei is a complex of Lower Paleolithic (Old Stone Age) archaeological and paleontological sites located on the western shore of Lake Turkana, Kenya.

The Lower Paleolithic period (2.7 million to 200,000 years ago) is the first archaeology, that is to say, that period when the first evidence of what scientists consider human behaviors occurred.

Beeches Pit is the name of a Lower Paleolithic archaeological site located in Suffolk, England. The site has been dated to about 400,000 years old, and was probably used by Homo heidelbergensis.

Bilzingsleben is a Lower Paleolithic open air site with fabulous preservation, located in in Thuringia, eastern Germany and dated between 320,000 and 412,000 years ago.

The Lower Paleolithic site of Bouri is located within the Bouri formation of the Middle Awash region of Ethiopia.

The archaeological site of Gesher Benot Yaaqov is located in the northern Jordan Valley on the shore of an ancient lake. Paleomagnetic dating of this site makes it a Lower Paleolithic site, dated to approximately 790,000 years ago.

At 2.6 million years old, the Lower Paleolithic site called Gona or Kada Gona in Ethiopia is the earliest site yet to contain evidence of chipped stone tool making.

Gran Dolina is a cave site in the Sierra de Atapuerca region of central Spain, with human occupations dated between 300,000 and 885,000 years ago.

Lower Paleolithic site in Italy, occupied about 736,000±40,000 BP.

The site of Kaletepe Deresi 3 is located in the Göllü Dag region of central Turkey, and it contains at least three Middle and Lower Paleolithic archaeological components

The second cultural tradition (the first is KBS) identified at the very ancient hominid occupation site called FxJj18 at Koobi Fora.

Lower Paleolithic site in northern Kenya, east of Lake Turkana.

The Lower Paleolithic archaeological sites called Lokalalei are located in the Lake Turkana region of Kenya

Olduvai Gorge in Tanzania is an ancient hominid archaeological site in Tanzania, excavated by the Leakeys in the mid-1950s.

Kibish is the name of an ancient rock formation along the Omo River at the base of the Nkalabong Range in Ethiopia where excavations by Richard Leakey and others recovered Homo sapiens remains as old as 195,000 years before the present.

The archaeological sites in the Siwalik region of Pakistan and India called the Soan Valley Tradition date to the Lower Paleolithic.

Swartkrans is a Lower Paleolithic cave site in South Africa, discovered in 1948 by Robert Broom and excavated by C.K. Brain in the 1960s.

Terra Amata is an Acheulean tradition Lower Paleolithic site located on the Mediterranean coast of southern France.

Vallonet Cave is a paleolithic cave in the maritime Alps of southeastern France, near the Mediterranean coast near Nice.

Zhoukoudian (also spelled Choukoutien) is the name of a stratified cave site and associated fissures in Fangshan District, about 45 km southwest of Beijing, China

Modified bone recovered from a 3.4 million year old site may rewrite what paleontologists understand as the Lower Paleolithic.