Archaeologists made the discovery in a cave overlooking the ocean on the southern coast of South Africa - that was once ...

The 20,000-year-old tools, found on the southern coast of South Africa, were made by early humans near the end of the last ...

Archaeologists previously assumed that East Asia did not see considerable tool development during the Middle Paleolithic, but ...

It’s much easier to come up with a world-changing invention if there are examples of it lying around without you having to ...

Before hominins intentionally chipped stone to make tools, they likely used sharp rocks already shaped by natural forces.

Archaeologists in China’s Yunnan province unearthed stone tools crafted in a style associated with Neanderthals that hasn’t ...

In a cave overlooking the ocean on the southern coast of South Africa, archaeologists discovered thousands of stone tools, created by ancient humans roughly 20,000 years ago. By examining tiny details ...

Instead of some australopithecine genius coming up with the idea of carefully striking stones to produce sharp blades, early humans ... reason to produce sharp stone tools unless the need to ...

A team of archeologists in South Africa had to climb to new heights to find an important set of tools made by humans about 20 ...

"There is no reason to produce sharp stone tools unless the need to cut is already in place." The new hypothesis proposes that for a substantial amount of time, before early humans made their own ...

Archeological evidence has indicated that early humans fabricated tools during the Middle ... technological system” — essentially tools for making tools, with various kinds of stone chips at its core ...

Eren, Archaeometry) A team of researchers from the Cleveland Museum of Natural History and Kent State University propose a revolutionary hypothesis about the origin of stone tools: Early humans ...