Researchers know that simple stone tools were being made as far back as 3.3 million years ago. But until now, bone tools were ...

Some of the oldest stone tools ever found have offered a rare glimpse into the lives of early humans and their relatives. An archaeological excavation on the shore of Lake Victoria in Kenya has ...

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 ...

Older stone tools have been found in Kenya, dating back to around 3.3 million years ago, long before our own Homo ancestors appeared. Those tools were a bit simpler and so far have only been found ...

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.

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 ...

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.

Stone artifacts unearthed in the same sediment as fossil hippo skeletons, such as this one, indicate that hominids used tools to butcher large animals at least 2.6 million years ago, around ...

The stone tools were unearthed around 1910 at a French archaeological site called Le Moustier that scientists believe Neanderthals used between 120,000 and 40,000 years ago.

Wood sharpens stone: Boomerangs used to retouch lithic tools Date: August 16, 2022 Source: Griffith University Summary: A new study into the multipurpose uses of boomerangs has highlighted the ...

More than 80 Stone Age tools have been unearthed at a farm in Dartmoor in the U.K. Experts believe these tools may be 8,000 years old, made by our hunter-gatherer ancestors.