The oldest known stone tools discovered so far date to about 3.3 million years ago at the Lomekwi 3 site in Kenya, pushing toolmaking back nearly a million years beyond the long-accepted Oldowan ...
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Oldest wooden tools unearthed in East Asia show that ancient humans made planned trips to dig up edible plants
The 300,000 year-old tools show that hominins in East Asia made planned foraging trips to lakeshores and designed instruments ...
Our prehistoric human ancestors relied on deliberately modified and sharpened stone tools as early as 3.3 million years ago. The selection of rock type depended on how easily the material could be ...
New research on a 14,000-year-old soil layer in Alaska uncovered stone and mammoth ivory tools. The find offers the oldest examples of human-made tools ever discovered in North America. The discovery ...
Symbols and markings carved into tools and figurines by Stone Age humans over 40,000 years ago could be an ancient precursor to writing, according to a new analysis. The marks, found on 260 artifacts ...
Archaeologists have found that early humans in what is now China were using sophisticated stone tools as far back as 160,000 years ago. "This discovery challenges the perception that stone tool ...
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