Learn about the 430,000-year-old stone tools and techniques that allowed ancient humans to butcher elephant meat for a hefty ...

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

Ancient wooden tools found at a site in Gantangqing in southwestern China are approximately 300,000 years old, new dating has ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

A new study uncovers how early humans in Greece used stone tools for butchery, offering rare insight into life 430,000 years ...

3-million-year-old stone tools found, and our ancestors likely didn’t make them. Evidence suggests the tools were used by the human relative Paranthropus, which scientists previously believed ...

Key findings include previously unseen markings that could be Roman numerals, traces of copper alloy and gypsum plaster, and tool marks left during both the stone’s original carving and a 1951 ...

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.