Old beliefs about early human behavior in East Asia are being challenged by the discovery of a richly-layered archaeological ...

Archaeologists have found the oldest-known surviving examples of handheld wooden tools.

Early humans in England used elephant bone to sharpen stone tools, revealing advanced planning, material knowledge, and ...

Learn how two wooden tools discovered in Greece mark the earliest known evidence of humans shaping wood, moving the timeline ...

Archaeologists in central China have uncovered evidence that early humans were far more inventive than long assumed. Excavations at the Xigou site reveal advanced stone tools, including the earliest ...

OUR prehistoric human ancestors relied on deliberately modified and sharpened stone tools as early as 3.3 million years ago. The selection of rock type depended on how easily the material could be ...

Archaeologists working in southern Greece have identified wooden tools that appear to be the oldest of their kind ever found.

Researchers believe the ancient wood, found in Greece, is actually evidence of the earliest hand-held wooden tool usage in ...

Early hominins in Europe were creating tools from raw materials hundreds of thousands of years before Homo sapiens arrived ...

New evidence has emerged that sheds light on the possible first people to populate the Americas. Dating of stone and ivory ...

In the shadow of a coal mine in southern Greece, archaeologists discovered the oldest known handheld wooden tools ever found.

An international team has discovered the earliest known hand-held wooden tools used by humans. A study jointly led by ...