Early humans in England used elephant bone to sharpen stone tools, revealing advanced planning, material knowledge, and ...

Europe’s Stone Age has taken an edgy turn. A new analysis finds that human ancestors living in what is now Spain fashioned double-edged stone cutting tools as early as 900,000 years ago, almost twice ...

When monkeys in Thailand use stones as hammers and anvils to help them crack open nuts, they often accidentally create sharp flakes of rock that look like the stone cutting tools made by early humans.

Anthropologists have confirmed Charles Darwin's speculation that the evolution of unique features in the human hand was influenced by increased tool use in our ancestors. New research from ...

Tools like these don't stand out at first, but when a job gets awkward or frustrating, they often turn out to be the easiest ...

Large stone-cutting tools dubbed hand axes regularly appear at prehistoric archaeological sites from India westward across southern Asia into Europe and Africa. In 1944, Harvard anthropologist Hallam ...

For thousands of years before European contact, Native Americans used stone to create many of the tools that were used in their everyday lives. Not all types of stone are suitable for making tools, ...

Hand axes from the site of Saffaqah, Saudi Arabia. Palaeodeserts/Ian R. Cartwright Nearly 200,000 years ago, at the confluence of two long-vanished river systems in the heart of Arabia, people climbed ...

A trove of around 800 stone tools, including what archaeologists described as “giant hand axes,” was found in a dig in Kent, England—shedding light on an era when Neanderthals were beginning to emerge ...

Archaeologists are testing ancient stone tool designs using very modern engineering. In the journal Royal Society Interface, a group of three archaeologists based in England and Spain surveyed tools ...

A new study analyzing stone tools from southern China provides the earliest evidence of rice harvesting, dating to as early as 10,000 years ago. The researchers identified two methods of harvesting ...