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

Archaeologists working in southern Greece have identified wooden tools that appear to be the oldest of their kind ever found.

Researchers say two artifacts discovered along a lakeshore in Greece are the oldest known wooden tools yet uncovered, dating back about 430,000 years.

Discovered during excavations at Boxgrove in West Sussex, the ancient hammer is among the oldest elephant bone tools ever ...

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

Ancient tools from China show early humans made complex, hafted technologies 160,000 years ago, reshaping views of innovation ...

Discovery of complex pre-historic tools in China suggests our ancestors were far more advanced than thought - Find suggests ...

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 ...

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

International research team from Germany, the UK and Greece finds evidence of wooden tool use in Greece 430,000 years ago ...

Oldowan stone tools made from a variety of raw materials sourced more than 6 miles away from where they were found in southwestern Kenya. The development of the Oldowan toolkit made it possible for ...

In the technical description, the authors emphasize that the skeleton includes clavicle and shoulder-blade fragments, both upper arms, both forearms, plus part of the sacrum and hip bones - rare ...