Archaeologists have found the oldest known evidence of hafted tools in East Asia, and they challenge a previously held ...
Learn how archaeologists dated stone tools from central China and what they reveal about when early humans in Asia began ...
Archaeologists have found the oldest-known surviving examples of handheld wooden tools.
The oldest handmade stone tools discovered yet predate any known humans and may have been wielded by an as-yet-unknown species, researchers say. The 3.3-million-year-old stone artifacts are the first ...
At a site in Kenya, archaeologists recently unearthed layer upon layer of stone stools from deposits that span 300,000 years, and include a period of intense environmental upheaval. The oldest tools ...
The finding, along with the discovery of a 500,000-year-old hammer made of bone, indicates that our human ancestors were ...