The mortar, pestle and cutting board in your kitchen are modern versions of manos and metates—ancient cooking implements ...

The researchers suggested that only after using naturally sharp stones for cutting did ancient humans faced selective ...

Stone tools are considered the first form of technology devised by ancient humans – but they might not have been invented ...

The newly discovered bone tools, which consist of 27 deliberately split and chipped large mammal long bones, were recovered ...

For many years, it was believed that the Aboriginal people of Tasmania had become extinct and that their culture, languages, ...

Sharp stone technology chipped over three million years allowed early humans to exploit animal and plant food resources, ...

Our ancient ancestors were using bone tools at least 1.5 million years ago, roughly a million years earlier than was previously thought, a study published last week in the journal Nature reported. The ...

“Prior to our discovery, the technological transition from the Oldowan to the Acheulean was limited to the study of stone tools,” de la Torre points out. For hundreds of thousands of years, early ...

Researchers know that simple stone tools were being made as far back as 3.3 million years ago. But until now, bone tools were believed to be a much later innovation. The well-preserved artifacts ...

For centuries, archaeologists have pieced together the story of early humans – one artifact at a time. Stone tools, with their sharp edges and deliberate craftsmanship, have offered the clearest ...

And that may change the way scientists think about when ancient humans started using crafted bone instead of stone as tools. The Olduvai Gorge has been a treasure trove of ancient human artefacts ...

The adoption of tools heralded the dawn of technology, and the oldest-known stone tools date to at least 3.3 million years ago. There have been examples of sporadic use of tools made from bone ...