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. Stone tools are deliberately made by the hands of hominins, like these worked on by the author. John K. Murray Have you ever found ...

During fieldwork aimed at documenting the stone tool use of a group of wild chimpanzees in the Taï Forest in Cote d'Ivoire in early 2022, the researchers identified and 3D-scanned a variety of stone ...

A fossil hippo skeleton and associated Oldowan artifacts were exposed at the Nyayanga site. T.W. Plummer, Homa Peninsula Paleoanthropological Project The dead hippo represented a stroke of luck to our ...

Archaeologists and primatologists have shown that stone tool using chimpanzees in West Africa have distinct and recognizable material cultures. During fieldwork aimed at documenting the stone tool use ...

A new exhibit at the Clarke Historical Museum in Eureka highlights many of the types of stone tools made and used in the Pacific Northwest over the last 10,000 years. “Stone Tool Use in the Pacific ...

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. More than 80 Stone Age tools have been unearthed at a farm in Dartmoor ...

At a site in Kenya, archaeologists recently unearthed layer upon layer of stone stools from deposits that span 300,000 years, and include a period of intense environmental upheaval. The oldest tools ...

Have you ever found yourself in a museum's gallery of human origins, staring at a glass case full of rocks labeled "stone tools," muttering under your breath, "How do they know it's not just any old ...