Learn about the 430,000-year-old stone tools and techniques that allowed ancient humans to butcher elephant meat for a hefty ...

Stone tools unearthed from a rock shelter in Southern Oregon were last used more than 18,000 years ago, radiocarbon dating suggests. That makes the site one of the oldest-known human living spaces ...

During the last Ice Age,roughly between 26,000 and 19,000 years ago, the Earth was dramatically different from today. Vast ...

Previously, stone tools that had been discovered 800 miles from the Kenyan dig site were estimated to be 3.3 million years old, though they were more “haphazard,” simple and crude.

The 1300s just happened to be the radio-carbon-dated time in the layers of soil in which stone tools were found. “W e definitely expect this to go beyond 700 years,” she said.

Marks on stone tools found in the Tabon Caves on Palawan island in the Philippines suggest they were used for processing plant fibres, allowing the creation of ropes, baskets and other items ...

The oldest stone tools have been discovered by archaeologists in Kenya who say they are 3.3m years old – about 700,000 years older than the previous most ancient stone implements.

Archaeologists found stone tools humans used to butcher animals in what's now Oregon. The tools were below ancient camel and bison tooth fragments that were over 18,000 years old. It's among the ...

Stone tools are an important hallmark of human evolution, although research has suggested that stone tools may actually update humans. For example, in 2015, ...

Stone tools dug up in western Ukraine date to about 1.4 million years ago, making them the earliest evidence of human presence in Europe, researchers report Wednesday in the journal Nature.

The Quina technology discovered in East Asia was a set of stone tools for making other tools. Prehistoric sites in Europe that host similar tools are associated with Neanderthals. Ben Marwick ...

The very earliest stone tools of this type were found in eastern Africa and date back to 2.8 million years ago, said Rick Potts, who directs the Smithsonian Institution’s Human Origins Program.