The 20,000-year-old tools, found on the southern coast of South Africa, were made by early humans near the end of the last ...

A team of archeologists in South Africa had to climb to new heights to find an important set of tools made by humans about 20 ...

Learn how early humans made the 60-mile crossing from Europe to Malta, navigating at least partially by stars.

A major discovery in West Africa is rewriting human history—archaeologists have found stone tools dating back 150,000 years ...

Seafaring hunter-gatherers were accessing remote, small islands such as Malta thousands of years before the arrival of the ...

The world’s oldest modified mammoth ivory pieces may have been used by children to mimic the tools of their parents, or ...

Artefacts unearthed in Yunnan province display key features of toolmaking technology associated with Neanderthals much ...

It’s much easier to come up with a world-changing invention if there are examples of it lying around without you having to ...

Researchers found European-style Quina tools in China, dating back 55,000 years, challenging the view that East Asia’s Middle ...

Archaeologists previously assumed that East Asia did not see considerable tool development during the Middle Paleolithic, but ...

Stone tools unearthed in China's Yunnan province suggest Neanderthals or another ancient human species adapted to harsh ...

A mother cheetah and her cubs wandered outside Kuno National Park, encountering hostile villagers. The anxious villagers threw stones at the cheetahs, who had managed to bring down a calf. Forest ...