Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Stone tools are deliberately made by the hands of hominins, like these worked on by the author. John K. Murray Have you ever found ...

An ancient elephant bone hammer from southern England reveals that early humans used rare materials to precisely sharpen ...

Scientists working in a remote region of Kenya have found stone tools dating back 3.3 million years, making them the oldest ever used by our human ancestors. The collection of razor-edged and round ...

When Japanese scientists wanted to learn more about how ground stone tools dating back to the Early Upper Paleolithic might have been used, they decided to build their own replicas of adzes, axes, and ...

An international team of researchers say they have uncovered the earliest evidence of systematic flaked stone tool production and use at a site in Ethiopia. Previously, scientists had evidence for the ...

Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Stone tools appear to have existed before the Homo genus It’s been the view for decades that the first stone ...

A group of South American monkeys has rocked archaeologists’ assumptions about the origins of stone-tool making. Wild bearded capuchin monkeys in Brazil use handheld stones to whack rocks poking out ...

They don't look like much, but scores of crude stone tools discovered in Kenya are special: Scientists say they date back 3.3 million years, which makes them the oldest such artifacts ever found by ...

Have you ever found yourself in a museum's gallery of human origins, staring at a glass case full of rocks labeled "stone tools," muttering under your breath, "How do they know it's not just any old ...