Archaeologist Laura Dietrich studies a replica Stone Age axe in Germany. While not from the Latvian site, such replicas reveal how ancient tools were used. Some 6,000 years ago in the northern reaches ...

Ancient wooden tools found at a site in Gantangqing in southwestern China are approximately 300,000 years old, new dating has shown. Discovered during excavations carried out in 2014–15 and 2018–19, ...

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 ...

Archaeologists studying the vast Zvejnieki cemetery in Latvia have uncovered surprising truths about Stone Age life. Stone tools, long thought to symbolize male hunters, were actually buried just as ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Early human ancestors during the Old Stone Age were more picky about the rocks they used for making tools than previously known, according to research published Friday. Not only did ...

WASHINGTON — Early human ancestors during the Old Stone Age were more picky about the rocks they used for making tools than previously known, according to research published Friday. Not only did these ...

Prehistoric hunter-gatherers were likely skilled seafarers who could make long and challenging journeys. Stone tools, animal bones and other artifacts unearthed in Malta indicate that humans first ...