African stone sculpting is an elaborate tradition that highlights the continent's rich culture. The centuries-old art form ...

Experiments and simulations show Paleolithic paddlers could outwit the powerful Kuroshio Current by launching dugout canoes ...

This 15,000-Year-Old Stone Carving Is the Oldest Depiction of Fishing. ... “The Gönnersdorf engravings provide valuable insights into the fishing techniques and tools used by Palaeolithic ...

Previously, stone tools that had been discovered 800 miles from the Kenyan dig site were estimated to be 3.3 million years old, though they were more “haphazard,” simple and crude.

When Japanese scientists wanted to learn more about how ground stone tools dating back to the Early Upper Paleolithic might have been used, they decided to build their own replicas of adzes, axes ...

Humans, uniquely, are dependent on tools — including stone tools — for survival but the origins of this reliance on technology is shrouded in mystery. A new discovery of such tools has shown ...

Researchers from Tokyo Metropolitan University crafted replica Stone Age tools and used them for a range of tasks to see how different activities create traces on the edge. They found that a ...

Stone tools discovered in Kenya are the oldest Oldowan-type implements found, dating back at least 2.6 million years, and they may have been made by our relative Paranthropus. Close.

Anthropologists interested in the evolution of tool use, including Professor Nicholas Zwyns at UC Davis, took notice. Although other non-human primates, including chimpanzees and rhesus macaques, use ...

Tokyo, Japan – Researchers from Tokyo Metropolitan University crafted replica stone age tools and used them for a range of tasks to see how different activities create traces on the edge.

A study says that ancient stone tools discovered in Brazil, which are up to 50,000 years old, are surprisingly not the work of humans.