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, ...

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

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

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

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

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.

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 ...

A close look at 7,000-year-old grinding stones left in ancient firepits shows wandering herders in northern Saudi Arabia carried heavy tools for working on bones, plants and rocks.