Humans, uniquely, are dependent on tools — including stone tools — for survival but the origins of this reliance on technology is shrouded in mystery. A new discovery of such tools has shown ...

Archaeologists have discovered distinctive stone tools at a site in southwestern Kenya that may be up to three million years old, making them the oldest of their kind.. Even more surprising, the ...

When Japanese scientists wanted to learn more about how ground stone tools dating back to the Early Upper Paleolithic might have been used, they decided to build their own replicas of adzes, axes ...

Previously, stone tools that had been discovered 800 miles from the Kenyan dig site were estimated to be 3.3 million years old, though they were more “haphazard,” simple and crude.

Acheulian stone tools found near the DAN5 cranium. Michael J. Rogers, Southern Connecticut State University "For many years, paleoanthropologists had embraced a simplistic one-to-one correlation ...

Researchers from Tokyo Metropolitan University crafted replica Stone Age tools and used them for a range of tasks to see how different activities create traces on the edge. They found that a ...

The monkey artifacts also diverge from the oldest known stone tools in the world: 3.3-million-year-old implements that Harmand and her team excavated from the site of Lomekwi in Kenya.

Neanderthals glued their stone tools into place on wooden handles, a new study suggests. Archaeologists found chemical traces of pine resin on 10 stone tools from Grotta del Fossellone and Grotta ...

“Stone tools are allowing them, even at this really early date, to extract a lot of resources from the environment,” study co-author Thomas Plummer from City University of New York’s Queen ...

Archaeologists in China’s Yunnan province unearthed stone tools crafted in a style associated with Neanderthals that hasn’t previously been found in East Asia, study says.

Loui the orangutan hitting the floor of his enclosure with a stone tool. Photo: Motes-Rodrigo et al., 2022, PLOS ONE, CC-BY 4.0 Captive orangutans can use stone tools without minimal direction ...

Previous research has already shown that rock-wielding capuchin monkeys in Brazil unwittingly produce hominid-like stone flakes (SN: 10/19/16).. Observations of rock bashing by these two monkey ...