When Japanese scientists wanted to learn more about how ground stone tools dating back to the Early Upper Paleolithic might have been used, they decided to build their own replicas of adzes, axes, and ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Researchers study the markings left by ancient human ancestors when they used elephant and hippopotamus bones to create tools 1.5 ...

Sculptures and tools from the Stone Age show markings that could be an early precursor to written language, according to a new analysis.

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, ...

A recently published research article examines the microscopic remains of clothing and burial items dating back roughly 7,000 ...

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A STONE Age stick wielded by humans 430,000 years ago may be the oldest wooden tool ever discovered. Two time-travelling artefacts were uncovered, rewriting history to push back this kind of tool by ...

Two skulls from Yunxian, in northern China, aren’t ancestors of Denisovans after all; they’re actually the oldest known Homo ...

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(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 by ...