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

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

A newly excavated archaeological site in central China is reshaping long-held assumptions about early hominin behavior in ...

Researchers identified early handled tools that archeologists previously thought were not created in East Asia until ...

Finds from Greece and Britain suggest early hominins were shaping wood and bone with far more intention and ingenuity than ...

Archaeologists working in southern Greece have identified wooden tools that appear to be the oldest of their kind ever found.

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

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

Researchers say tools from the Xigou site reveal unexpected innovation, including early composite implements dating back up ...

Archaeologists have found the oldest-known surviving examples of handheld wooden tools.

Niguss Gitaw Baraki receives funding from the Leakey Foundation and the U.S. National Science Foundation. Dan V. Palcu Rolier's work was supported by NWO Veni grant 212.136, FAPESP grants 2018/20733-6 ...