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

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.

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

NEW YORK (AP) — Two artifacts found at a lake shore in Greece are the oldest wooden tools to be uncovered so far and date ...

The 300,000 year-old tools show that hominins in East Asia made planned foraging trips to lakeshores and designed instruments for specific purposes. When you purchase through links on our site, we may ...

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

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." A collection of 27 1.5-million-year-old bone tools discovered in Tanzania shows early humans had an ...

Imagine it: you're doing your regular garden tool maintenance and notice some yard tools aren't working the way they used to. One quick test proves that the power tool has been reduced to a stuttering ...