Learn how archaeologists dated stone tools from central China and what they reveal about when early humans in Asia began using complex tools.

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

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

Learn about a 500,000-year old hammer made from elephant bone, used by early humans in England to sharpen stone tools.

Long before the first sparks of civilization — or even humanity as we know it — our ancestors were already inventors. On the ancient riverbanks of Kenya’s Turkana Basin, nearly three million years ago ...

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 early people ...

Our prehistoric human ancestors relied on deliberately modified and sharpened stone tools as early as 3.3 million years ago.

This photo provided by the Homa Peninsula Paleoanthropology Project in August 2025, shows Oldowan stone tools made from a variety of raw materials sourced more than 6 miles away from where they were ...