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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

Every time we slice into a steak or cut into some chicken, we’re taking part in a technological heritage that stretches back at least 3.4 million years. Back then, the only cutting implements around ...

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 ...

Imagine if tens of thousands of years from now, archaeologists were to dig up a pile of wrecked, 20th century cars and try to figure out what people did with the strange-looking things. After ...

It does not pay to underestimate a monkey with a rock. Scientists studying the stone-smashing habits of bearded capuchin monkeys in Brazil have found that the primates inadvertently produce stone ...

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, ...