The invention of sharp stone tools – known as “knapping” – marked a turning point in early human evolution, allowing our ancestors to access new food resources, from tough plant fibers to animal ...

During the Middle Paleolithic, when Neanderthals were modern humans’ neighbors, new technologies meant something quite different: new kinds of stone tools that were smaller but could be used for ...

But how did the production of stone tools -- called 'knapping' -- start? Researchers have proposed a new hypothesis for the origin of stone technology in human evolution. Sharp stone technology ...

During the Middle Paleolithic, when Neanderthals were modern humans' neighbors, new technologies meant something quite different: new kinds of stone tools that were smaller but could be used for ...

Researchers have unearthed stone tools that date back to at least 3.3 million years ago, but before this discovery, the oldest known bone tools were found at European sites believed to be 250,000 ...

A local worker initially noticed stone tools and animal fossils eroding from the soil. Archaeologists later recovered 330 artifacts, including 42 Oldowan tools—primitive instruments used for ...

Our ancient ancestors were using bone tools at least 1.5 million years ago, roughly a million years earlier than was previously thought, a study published last week in the journal Nature reported. The ...

“We were excited to find these bone tools from such an early timeframe. It means that human ancestors were capable of transferring skills from stone to bone, a level of complex cognition that we haven ...

And that may change the way scientists think about when ancient humans started using crafted bone instead of stone as tools. The Olduvai Gorge has been a treasure trove of ancient human artefacts ...

While early human ancestors started making stone tools at least 2.6 million years ago, bone tools took much longer to appear. The earliest signs of a regular use of bone tools hadn’t shown up in ...

In Olduvai Gorge, archaeologists have discovered a range of bone tools thought to have been made and used by an ancestral human species of hominid called Homo habilis 1.5 million years ago. Known as ...