Three-million-year-old tools found in Kenya reveal early humans' ability to cut food, butcher meat, and adapt to new diets.

While Paleolithic (early Stone Age) artifacts point to the use of wood for simple tools such as spears or throwing sticks, later Mesolithic and Neolithic artifacts reflect far more sophisticated ...

The researchers created replica stone tools that resembled those used in the Early Upper Paleolithic age, about 38,000 to 30,000 years ago. They used these tools for different tasks, such as ...

The tools date back to around 2.9 million years ago, when early humans used them to butcher hippos for ... explained anthropologist Kathy Schick of the Stone Age Institute in Indiana, who wasn't ...

At a Neolithic settlement on the Danish island Funen dating back 5,500 years, archaeologists unearthed 14 Neolithic grinding ...

Early Stone Age: A time period lasting from about 2.6 million to between 400,000 and 250,000 years ago that includes stone tools traditions called Oldowan and Acheulean. The Early Stone Age in ...

An international study reveals how early humans, as far back as 1.5 million years ago, deliberately selected specific stones ...

Artifacts from the early Stone Age, particularly pebble tools, have been found from Sudan to Egypt. It is likely that settlement took place over thousands of years perhaps moving north from the ...

They used flint tools to hunt animals ... JavaScript is required to view this activity. In the early Stone Age, people made simple hand-axes out of stones. They made hammers from bones or antlers ...