For European and American Stone Age peoples, end scrapers served as heavy- duty scraping tools that could have been used on animal hides, wood, or bones. Once the hide was removed from an animal ...

Stone tools recently discovered in Ukraine could potentially rewrite history as the oldest evidence of human presence in ...

Stone tools are considered the first form of technology devised by ancient humans – but they might not have been invented ...

The study, published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) of the United States, reveals that yellow-breasted capuchin monkeys in Brazil inadvertently produce sharp stone ...

These tools were made a very, very long time ago. Over 10,000 years ago, in what we now call the Stone Age. And to show how long ago that is, I'm going to walk back in time. This is today.

pushes back the age of a large bone tool kit by more than a million years. And that may change the way scientists think about when ancient humans started using crafted bone instead of stone as tools.

The excavation of bone tools at Olduvai Gorge in Tanzania expands the range of ancient hominids’ cultural innovations.

New evidence uncovered in east Africa indicates ancient hominins began crafting tools from animal bones far earlier than previously thought. If confirmed, our human ancestors started shaping bones by ...