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 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.

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), ...

Stone Age humans living by a lake in what’s now Germany systematically processed animal carcasses for fatty nutrients — essentially running what scientists describe as a “fat factory” to boil bones on ...

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), ...

Learn about the 430,000-year-old stone tools and techniques that allowed ancient humans to butcher elephant meat for a hefty meal.

300,000-year-old wooden tools found in southwestern China reveal surprising sophistication from the ancestors of modern humans.

300,000-year-old wooden tools found in southwestern China reveal surprising sophistication from the ancestors of modern humans.

Radiocarbon dating suggests that these prehistoric whale bone tools are between 14,000 and 20,000 years old, which makes them “the oldest evidence of whale-bone working to our knowledge.” How Stone ...