This research provides a clearer timeline for the onset of stone tool technology and helps attribute early technology to climate pressures. The research also provides empirical evidence that ...

Early humans in England used elephant bone to sharpen stone tools, revealing advanced planning, material knowledge, and ...

New technologies today often involve electronic devices that are smaller and smarter than before. During the Middle Paleolithic, when Neanderthals were modern humans’ neighbors, new technologies meant ...

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

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

At a site in Kenya, archaeologists recently unearthed layer upon layer of stone stools from deposits that span 300,000 years, and include a period of intense environmental upheaval. The oldest tools ...

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

Sharp stone technology chipped over three million years allowed early humans to exploit animal and plant food resources. But how did the production of stone tools -- called 'knapping' -- start?

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