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

Used by our early human ancestors around 430,000 years ago, the earliest known hand-held wooden tools have been uncovered by ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

The earliest hominins in Europe shared their environment with large mammals and elephants were some of the largest animals ...

Researchers identified early handled tools that archeologists previously thought were not created in East Asia until ...

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 ...

Early humans were not just scavengers. New research shows they actively butchered elephants, transforming survival and social behavior.

The finding, along with the discovery of a 500,000-year-old hammer made of bone, indicates that our human ancestors were ...