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

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

Archaeologists have found the oldest-known surviving examples of handheld wooden tools.

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

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

Archaeologists in Malaysia have uncovered over 100 Paleolithic-era artifacts—including stone tools, snail shells, and pottery—estimated to be 17,000 years old. The discoveries were made in the cave ...

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 ...

Learn how two wooden tools discovered in Greece mark the earliest known evidence of humans shaping wood, moving the timeline ...

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

Researchers uncovered a 2.75–2.44 million-year-old site in Kenya showing that early humans maintained stone tool traditions for nearly 300,000 years despite extreme climate swings. The tools, ...

The tools include sharp-edged stone fragments that the ancient humans made from larger pebbles likely taken from nearby riverbeds. Previous research suggested that the Wallacea archipelago was ...

A stick found in southern Greece appears to be the oldest-known wooden tool.