A fragment of elephant bone used to sharpen stone axes nearly half a million years ago has been identified as the oldest ...

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A haul of Stone Age artifacts included a highly ornamental deer antler that had been turned into an ax handle. The discovery is extremely rare, according to experts, and likely served multiple uses.

A gardener weeding a raspberry patch in Potok Górny stumbled on a fragment of an ancient stone ax, photo show and archaeologists said. Google Street View August 2012 ...

Around 1455, a medieval French painter and miniaturist named Jean Fouquet painted a small diptych with two panels, one of which depicts St. Stephen holding a strangely shaped stone—usually interpreted ...

CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — A team of archaeologists, including students, working under a blazing summer sun on a high hill near O’Fallon, Ill., have made a rare find. In what was considered to be an "ordinary" ...

A 35,000-year-old stone ax discovered in northern Australia is the oldest known tool with ground edges, researchers reported on Saturday (Nov. 6). Humans' hominid ancestors have been using stone tools ...

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