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

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

A simple stick, shaped by ancient hands roughly 430,000 years ago, is rewriting what researchers thought they knew about ...

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

The discovery was made in southern Greece, where two objects - thought to be around 430,000 years old - were found.

The finding, along with the discovery of a 500,000-year-old hammer made of bone, indicates that our human ancestors were ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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

Ancient tools from central China are flipping the script, revealing early humans were far more innovative than history once gave them credit for.