A new study has shown that as early as the Stone Age, people in Africa traveled long distances to procure colorful stone, the ...

Learn more about the colorful and shiny stones that were turned into tools as many as 40,000 years ago, which were sometimes sourced from afar.

Testing replica Stone Age tools with a bit of wood-scraping. Credit: A. Iwase et al., 2024/Tokyo Metropolitan University ...

An amateur archaeologist’s collection of rare Stone Age relics found while beachcombing in Kent is expected to sell for tens ...

The 300,000 year-old tools show that hominins in East Asia made planned foraging trips to lakeshores and designed instruments ...

Tokyo, Japan – 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.

Ancient wooden tools found at a site in Gantangqing in southwestern China are approximately 300,000 years old, new dating has shown. Discovered during excavations carried out in 2014–15 and 2018–19, ...

Stone Age herders transported heavy rock tools to grind animal bones, plants and pigment. by Maria Guagnin, Giulio Lucarini and Michael Petraglia, The Conversation ...

A joint team of archaeologists, chronologists, geologists, and paleontologists have successfully dated a hoard of wooden ...

Stone Age tools show evidence of a cognitive process that is present in humans today. Get the Popular Science daily newsletter💡 Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday.

Stone tools discovered in southwest China could challenge what's known about human origins during the Stone Age. The tools, found at Longtan site, were crafted in Neanderthal-associated Quina ...

But the Clovis points achieved a butchering efficiency of 0.38 kilograms of meat per minute, whereas the handheld stone flake tools processed 0.34 kilograms of meat per minute.