A team of archeologists in South Africa had to climb to new heights to find an important set of tools made by humans about 20,000 years ago. These newly discovered stone tools were embedded in a cave ...

Team says discovery of 2,600 stone tools, including hafted tools, reshapes understanding of human evolution in eastern Asia ...

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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 ...

The reason is that even though handles might not last 160,000 years, the engineering decisions that led to their creation can ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Stone tools are deliberately made by the hands of hominins, like these worked on by the author. John K. Murray Have you ever found ...

The discovery of stone tools dating to at least 1.04 million years ago at the Early Pleistocene site of Calio on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi indicates that early hominins made a major deep-sea ...

The discovery drastically recontextualizes the region’s archaeological history. Archaeologists determined that seven stone tools found on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi date back to somewhere ...

Signs of bone breakage in extinct giant elephants, likely caused by repeated blows from stone tools, could be the earliest evidence of animal butchery in India, palaeontologists say. Based on two ...