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 ...

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

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, ...

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.

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

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.

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.

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 ...

Scientists try out Stone Age tools to understand how they were used. Feb 19, 2024. Early humans used wood splitting 300,000 years ago to hunt animals, study shows. Apr 3, 2024.