Neanderthals living just 70 kilometers apart in Israel may have had different food prep customs, according to new research on butchered animal bones. These subtle variations — like how meat was cut ...

The hominins who lived at Gantangqing lived a heavily plant-based subsistence lifestyle. They had access to meat, and also ...

Worldwide, the oldest known artifact of this type is a bone knife that was manufactured by modern humans in Morocco around 90,000 years ago. The revelation that Neanderthals were also working with ...

A team of paleontologists led by National Geographic Explorer Paul Sereno uncovered a trove of dinosaur fossils in the Sahara ...

Yet the Scladina multitool is the first known lion bone turned into a tool. It means Neanderthals not only handled lions, but ...

A team of archaeologists, chronologists, geologists, and paleontologists has finally dated a hoard of wooden tools found in China nearly a decade ago.

A famous prehistoric cave site in Belgium has yielded the oldest multifunctional tool of its kind. This Ice Age “Swiss Army ...

A trove of prehistoric Ice Age treasures are being exhibited alongside classic works of art to show why they deserve their ...

Discover how ancient humans scaled up their food production to survive in harsh environments.

Someone made very sophisticated wooden tools in China 300,000 years ago, and it might have been Denisovans or even Homo ...

Unlike stone or bone, it rarely survives more than a few centuries ... This is in contrast to colder, more northern settings where tools of similar age have been found (such as Schöningen in Germany), ...

The earliest tools used by humans were made of stone, followed by bronze, then iron, and finally steel. But was there a “Wood Age”?