A little under two million years ago, a prehistoric hominin in Africa made a cognitive leap that enabled it to produce a type ...

Stone tools found on Crete, Naxos, Zakynthos, and Kefalonia are used to argue that early humans, most likely Neanderthals, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Researcher at the site of ‘Ubeidiya. It lies three km south of the Sea of Galilee (Lake Kinneret) on what is today the flanks of ...

When a stone sits on the Earth’s surface, cosmic rays quietly pepper it, leaving behind rare isotopes like tiny time stamps. Bury the stone deep enough, and that cosmic “printing press” shuts off.

According to Miras Arya (CHTN), Barabadi referred to the importance of these findings, adding that the recent explorations, which have begun five decades after archeological activities of the ...

A collection of palaeolithic tools has sold at auction. A total of 68 hand axes and other Stone Age tools, which date back about 400,000 years, were collected by amateur enthusiast David Blake in Kent ...

Researchers excavating at a site in northern Tanzania’s Olduvai Gorge have unearthed bone implements made by human ancestors 1.5 million years ago. This is around a million years earlier than scholars ...

The Dehtal site, located in Hormozgan province, southern Iran, has yielded one of the most substantial Acheulean assemblages ever uncovered on the Iranian Plateau, underscoring the region’s ...

Bone tool carved on an elephant humerus 1.5 million years ago. Credit: CSIC An archaeological discovery in the Olduvai Gorge in Tanzania has changed our understanding of the technological evolution of ...

Tools were made from the remains of some surprising animals OUR ancient ancestors were churning out bone tools 1.5 million years ago – a million years earlier than we thought. Dozens of tools ...

OUR ancient ancestors were churning out bone tools 1.5 million years ago – a million years earlier than we thought. Dozens of tools belonging to the handy lot have been found, rewriting the history of ...

Ancient human relatives crafted sharp-edged tools out of animal bones around 1.5 million years ago, researchers say. Discoveries at Tanzania’s Olduvai Gorge, a famous East African fossil location, ...