Research on stone tools and early technologies shaping human history and prehistoric life.
Researchers working in central China have identified stone tools shaped for attachment to handles between 160,000 and 72,000 years ago. ...
Researchers working in southern Greece have identified the oldest known handheld wooden tools, dated to about 430,000 years ago. The ...
Archaeologists have identified a tool dating to around 500,000 years ago made from elephant bone, at the Boxgrove site in ...
A team of archaeologists excavating southern Africa has found the oldest direct evidence of human use of poisoned weapons, extending ...
A newly published study has uncovered the oldest known evidence of human cremation in Africa, extending Africa’s cremation record by ...
Roughly 2.75 million years ago, early humans of Kenya's Turkana Basin lived in a harsh and unpredictable world. The landscape ...
New evidence of ochre use by Neanderthals from Crimea and Ukraine indicates that these substances were used not only for ...
About 42,000 years ago, early modern humans across Europe and the Near East began producing remarkably similar types of stone ...
Archaeologists have uncovered a rare and remarkably preserved collection of stone tools, dating to around 30,000 years ago, at the ...
A recent study of the Zvejnieki cemetery in northern Latvia, one of the largest burial sites of the Stone Age ...
