Testing replica Stone Age tools with a bit of wood-scraping. Credit: A. Iwase et al., 2024/Tokyo Metropolitan University ...

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.

Analysis of Stone Age tools from Eswatini indicates that hunter-gatherers traveled 30–100 km to obtain colorful stones such as red jasper and green chalcedony for toolmaking.

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 ...

Stone Age herders transported heavy rock tools to grind animal bones, plants and pigment. by Maria Guagnin, Giulio Lucarini and Michael Petraglia, The Conversation ...

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 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.

A joint team of archaeologists, chronologists, geologists, and paleontologists have successfully dated a hoard of wooden tools recovered nearly a decade ago, Ancient Origins reported. The ancient ...

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 ...

Experts uncovered evidence of the structure on the grounds where two new football pitches were due to be laid.