A cache of 1.5 million-year-old bone tools uncovered in Tanzania suggest ancient human ancestors were capable of critical ...

The bone tools were created the same way tools were made from stone.

Rainforests may have been an important center for early human evolution, challenging the idea that early humans avoided rainforests because […] ...

The unique stone tools were made of flint from the Mountains ... The word “fallow” to describe the deer comes from the Old English word “fealu,” which is translated as brownish yellow.

Awls were small, pointed hand tools employed in both the Old and New World to slice fibers for thread and fishing nets, and to punch holes in leather and wood. Stone Age peoples may also have ...

Olduvai Gorge is a Unesco World Heritage site. It became well known in 1959 through the pioneering work of palaeontologists Louis and Mary Leakey, whose discoveries of early human remains reshaped our ...

The original trench where researchers found the 150,000-year-old stone tools in the Ivory Coast. (Image credit: Jimbob Blinkhorn, MPG) Nowadays, the southern Ivory Coast is a tropical rainforest ...

Why study Paleolithic technology? What can old stone tools, ancient fire pits, and painted cave walls tell us about our evolutionary past? Humans occupy a rarified position in the modern world.

The discovery of 1.5-million-year-old bone tools in Tanzania suggests early human ancestors had advanced cognitive abilities ...

Earliest known stone tools in Europe are 1.4 million years old. And they weren't made by modern humans. —150,000-year-old stone tools reveal humans lived in tropical rainforests much earlier ...

Stone tools recently discovered in Ukraine could potentially rewrite history as the oldest evidence of human presence in ...

Awls were small, pointed hand tools employed in both the Old and New World to slice fibers for thread and fishing nets, and to punch holes in leather and wood. Stone Age peoples may also have ...