Stone tools are considered the first form of technology devised by ancient humans – but they might not have been invented ...

Early humans were regularly using animal bones to make cutting tools 1.5 million years ago. A newly discovered cache of 27 ...

The scattered traces of ancient civilizations, such as stone tools, footprints, and fragments of settlements, witnessed the passage of time. These remains of the past held stories that could ...

Recent research provides compelling evidence that Middle Paleolithic peoples created deliberate patterns on stone artifacts ...

A new study by Dr. Margherita Mussi, published in Quaternary International, highlights how naturally occurring basalt spheres ...

Members of the genus Australopithecus — which includes the famed fossil Lucy — were making stone tools at least 2.6 million years ago. Bone tools appear only much later in the human story ...

A cache of 1.5 million-year-old bone tools uncovered in Tanzania suggest ancient human ancestors were capable of critical ...

The researchers suggested that only after using naturally sharp stones for cutting did ancient humans faced selective pressure that led them to start knapping their own stone tools.

The discovery of 1.5-million-year-old bone tools in Tanzania suggests early human ancestors had advanced cognitive abilities ...

The bone tools were created the same way tools were made from stone.

Archeologists have unearthed what could be the oldest human face in Western Europe. Dated at between 1.1 and 1.4 million ...