Finds from Greece and Britain suggest early hominins were shaping wood and bone with far more intention and ingenuity than ...

Our prehistoric human ancestors relied on deliberately modified and sharpened stone tools as early as 3.3 million years ago.

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

Archaeologists have found the oldest known evidence of hafted tools in East Asia, and they challenge a previously held ...

A newly excavated archaeological site in central China is reshaping long-held assumptions about early hominin behavior in ...

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

Oldowan stone tools made from a variety of raw materials sourced more than six miles away from where they were found in southwestern Kenya. In southwestern Kenya more than 2.6 million years ago, ...

Niguss Gitaw Baraki receives funding from the Leakey Foundation and the U.S. National Science Foundation. Dan V. Palcu Rolier's work was supported by NWO Veni grant 212.136, FAPESP grants 2018/20733-6 ...

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

Learn how archaeologists dated stone tools from central China and what they reveal about when early humans in Asia began using complex tools.

Researchers say tools from the Xigou site reveal unexpected innovation, including early composite implements dating back up ...