A pilot project to scan the surface material of an Iraqi desert revealed 850 different artifacts from the Old and Middle ...

Interestingly, all the artifacts were found on the surface of the ground, not buried deep in the soil. These artifacts ...

Archaeologists have unearthed stone tools dating back over a ... edge dating technologies to determine that the tools are astonishingly ancient. “We can definitively state that these are among ...

FOR some years past it has been felt by students of anthropology that the limits of their science were being pushed so far in every direction by various enthusiastic workers in almost every ...

dubbed the world's "factory of stone tools".This title stems from the large concentration of ancient tools, specifically hand axes, unearthed at the site, which date back millions of years.

Studies of the Oldowan stone tools – the oldest known stone tool ... At present, we do not know how our ancient ancestors identified these properties and therefore made their selections.

The types of stone tools include stone cores ... These traces not only show the level of tool production of ancient people, but also reflect the development and ­utilization of resources.

SCIENTISTS have finally cracked the ancient mystery of 1,400-year-old “alien rings” rising from the hills which were fuelling a tirade of conspiracy theories. Locals had been puzzled ...

The discoveries were focused on the Al-Shabakah area, which was once a large lake during the Pleistocene epoch but is now a ...

Why study Paleolithic technology? What can old stone tools, ancient fire pits, and painted cave walls tell us about our evolutionary past? Humans occupy a rarified position in the modern world.