Ancient wooden tools found at a site in Gantangqing in southwestern China are approximately 300,000 years old, new dating has ...

Learn about the 430,000-year-old stone tools and techniques that allowed ancient humans to butcher elephant meat for a hefty ...

"There's no question they were smart, they were intelligent, they were advanced," study author Prof Bo Li told IFLScience.

An international research team has published a new study on one of the oldest known sites for the processing of animal meat by humans in the southern Balkans. At Marathousa 1, an archaeological site ...

A new study from SapienCE reveals that early modern humans at Blombos Cave in South Africa used ochre as a specialized tool ...

In the northern hemisphere, ice sheets up to 8 kilometers tall covered much of Europe, Asia and North America, while much of ...

4,500-year-old flint blade discovered at construction site in Kernmünsterland, Germany, highlighting rare Stone Age artifacts in an unusual archaeological find.

A Pfyn culture stone tool with a wooden handle from about 3800 B.C.(Image credit: Matthias Hoffmann / Archäologisches Landesmuseum Baden-Württemberg) Name: Pfyn culture flint tool ...

Early in Kanzi’s training, he invented his own technique for making stone tools, throwing a flint cobble against a hard tile floor to remove larger flakes. He would then use the flakes to cut a ...

Starch remnants on the tools indicates crushing or grinding — providing evidence that the early hominids used the tools akin to a Stone-Age Cuisinart. Archeologists had previously found what they call ...

One of the small Stone Age flint cutting tools recovered from the bottom of the North Sea. (Image: Submerged Landscapes Research Centre / University of Bradford) ...