Ancient wooden tools found at a site in Gantangqing in southwestern China are approximately 300,000 years old, new dating has ...

The Oldowan age (2.7 million to 1.5 million years ago) represents the dawn of human tool use. Characterized by the very ...

Researchers have unearthed stone tools that date back to at least 3.3 million years ago, but before this discovery, the oldest known bone tools were found at European sites believed to be 250,000 ...

Fragment of projectile point from the cave site of Isturitz (Pyrénées-Atlantiques, France), made of bone from right whale or bowhead whale, dated to 17,300-16,700 years before present, curated at the ...

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

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 ...

Stone tools from this period are thought to have been created by Homo erectus, an extinct species that resembled modern humans, who lived 1.89 million to 110,000 years ago.

These scientists built their own Stone Age tools to figure out how they were used ... wood-adzing; C, wood-scraping; D, fresh bone-adzing; E, dry hide-scraping; F, disarticulation of a joint.

Unique Stone Age Ceremonial Site With 'Extremely Unusual' Remains Found. Published Nov 13, 2024 at 2:46 PM EST Updated Nov 13, ... not to mention well-preserved worked bone and horn tools.

By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — Archaeologists have uncovered a collection of bone tools in northern Tanzania that were shaped by ancient human ...

The handcrafted tools found in Tanzania were made 1.5 million years ago and were fashioned primarily from the bones of elephants and hippopotamuses.