Long, long ago, even before they became fully human, our African ancestors fashioned the first stone tools to butcher their meat, and when they showed their neighbors how to do it, those two groups ...

The recent uncovering of ancient Tibetan relics has shed light on the sophisticated toolmaking techniques employed by early human civilizations. This discovery not only offers a glimpse into the ...

It’s not easy to carve a stone hand ax – a tool that the long-extinct cousins of our species were making nearly two million years ago. First, you’ve got to pick a suitable chunk of flint that will ...

Learn more about the differences between Lebanese and Italian tools, which contradict the theory that modern human migrations spread a single stone tool culture from the Near East to Europe. There’s ...

Evidence of advanced toolmaking The team's study, now published in Science Advances, examines seven ochre pieces discovered in the sediments found in Blombos Cave, dated to approximately 90,000 to ...

Plotting the gradual advancement mankind is a tricky thing for archaeologists. Researchers are forced to draw from rare artifacts, using them to make rough estimates of when certain groups of ...

Scientists have long pointed to excavated stone tools as evidence that early humans passed down their culture. But new research is shaking up that understanding. Modern humans around the world have ...

Stone-tool makers living in southern Africa 75,000 years ago pushed the cutting edge in more ways than one. These intrepid folk sharpened the thin tips of heated stone spearheads using a forceful ...

Fashioning stone-age tools is no picnic. Emory researchers spend years learning to imitate the technological skills of human ancestors who lived hundreds of thousands of years ago If you're enjoying ...