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 ...

Travel back tens of thousands of years to witness how early humans adapted, innovated, and endured one of Earth’s most ...

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

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 ...

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

Wooden implements are extremely rare from the Early Palaeolithic period (the first part of the "stone age" from around 3.3 million years ago until 300,000 years ago or so, in which our hominin ...

Archaeologists in central Israel are excavating one of the world's oldest-known burial sites, dating back 100,000 years.

New research reveals Stone Age foragers in Africa traveled miles to collect colorful stones, showing early trade, taste, and ...

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

Wild chimpanzees show reduced participation and performance in their tool-use behaviours as they experience old age, ...