The traditional image of small groups of hunter-gatherers, isolated and struggling to survive in a hostile glacial landscape, ...

Over five millennia ago, Stone Age people in Central Europe crafted wooden handles for their stone tools.

A remarkable prehistoric hammer made from elephant bone, dating back nearly half a million years ago, has been uncovered in ...

Archaeologists studying a nearly 500,000-year-old elephant bone hammer have determined the ancient tool was made by ...

The discovery of a prehistoric hammer made from elephant bone in southern England is rewriting what we thought we knew about ...

Archaeologists do not have clear evidence as to when prehistoric humans started shearing sheep, nor when early textile making began. One of the main theories in this regard is that it began during the ...

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

Some of history's most important inventions can be credited to the British, from the steam engine to the World Wide Web. Now, research places one of the world's most profound discoveries on our shores ...

In addition to her position at the University of Barcelona, Marta Sánchez de la Torre is a researcher at the Seminari d'Estudis i Recerques Prehistòriques (SERP). She receives funding from the ...