Medicine & TechnologyRadioactive dating suggests that the stone tools discovered in Ukraine were used by ancient humans more than a million years ago. Find out more about it in this article.
Excavations uncover Ice Age sediment containing prehistoric artifacts, including giant handaxes resembling large flint knives. Check out these stone tools in this article.
A 1.5-million-year-old bone belonging to an ancient human relative exhibits cut marks made by stone tools, suggesting cannibalism. Read the article to learn more.
The discovery of the oldest stone tools in Kenya provides a glimpse of the early days of stone technology in which creators were able to maintain a well-rounded diet. Read the article to learn more.
Ancient stone tools from Tune Wielki cave in Malopolska about 550,000 years old, were discovered. Early humans who made them were examined, too. Read to know more.
Researchers found that male and female long-tailed macaques in a Balinese sanctuary use stone tools to pleasure themselves sexually. Read the article to know more about this unheard behavior of monkeys in Indonesia.
Prehistoric people were able to preserve their ancestor's stone tools. Find out here how they were able to preserve the appearance of ‘Memory Objects.’
Prehistoric people were able to preserve their ancestor's stone tools. Find out here how they were able to preserve the appearance of ‘Memory Objects.’
A study on ancient humans could have "enormous implications" to human history after finding out that they farmed cassowaries way before they raised chickens, contrary to previous studies.
Stone tools found in Neolithic farmers' graves showed gender roles, with men taking on hunting and butchery while women being responsible for leatherwork.
Stone tools discovered in a cave from central Mexico challenge the mainstream belief of when the first humans arrived in the Americas about 15,000 years ago. The lack of genetic evidence may possibly mean that the older peoples had been a 'lost group' and are not part of the modern gene pool.
Instead of just clearing the way for construction, archaeologists uncovered thousands of stone tools that are at least 10,000 years old in Redmond, Washington.
The ancient stone tool industry of our early ancestors was just pushed deeper back in time, based on recent findings near the western shore of Lake Turkana in Kenya. Tools dating to over 3 million years ago - some 700,000 years earlier than previous finds - indicate the technology arose even before the genus Homo roamed the planet.