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

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

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

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 ...

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

International research team from the University of Tübingen and the Senckenberg Nature Research Society finds early humans in ...

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

Neanderthals invented their own bone weapon technology by 80,000 years ago Neanderthals used sleek bone projectiles to hunt big game.

(CNN) — Archaeologists have uncovered a collection of bone tools in northern Tanzania that were shaped by ancient human ancestors 1.5 million years ago, making them the oldest known bone tools ...

The Stone Age was a prehistoric period that lasted more than 3 million years, from the point when human ancestors began using stone tools until the time we invented metalworking.