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

Even our earliest human ancestors were no dummies; there is evidence for stone tools as early as 3.3 million years ago, though they were probably making tools from perishable items even earlier. As ...

The earliest stone tools only involve three of the 33 total procedural units the researchers identified. The most sophisticated, from within the past 10,000 years, required 19.

Stone tools are rocks that have been selected for use or intentionally altered. This technology appeared around 3.3 million years ago and became essential to hominins—all the living and extinct ...

Maybe those stone tools crafted by our ancestors were more than just prehistoric knives used to slice apart dead gazelle, zebra or other game animal across Africa.A new study in the journal Nature ...

Humans, uniquely, are dependent on tools — including stone tools — for survival but the origins of this reliance on technology is shrouded in mystery. A new discovery of such tools has shown ...

Researchers have reported evidence of stone tools over 3.3 million years old, putting the origin of tool use some 700,000 years earlier than previously assumed.

In this interactive, try to identify 10 tools made by hunters who lived between 40,000 and 10,000 years ago. Stone Age Toolkit Stone Age homepage ...

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.

A large stone tool from different angles recovered from sediments in the Ledi-Geraru region of Ethiopia Our hominin ancestors had started making stone tools on a regular basis around 2.61 million ...

Capuchin monkeys’ stone-tool use has evolved over 3,000 years. A Brazilian site shows the animals’ long history of selecting various types of pounding devices.

With a little guidance and a lot of practice, even you can make stone tools the way our oldest ancestors did – and learn to recognize the signs of a deliberately made tool.