Sharp stone technology chipped over three million years allowed early humans to exploit animal and plant food resources, ...

Researchers have discovered that humans lived in tropical rainforests 150,000 years ago, around 100,000 years earlier than previous evidence suggested.

A cache of 1.5 million-year-old bone tools uncovered in Tanzania suggest ancient human ancestors were capable of critical ...

The researchers suggested that only after using naturally sharp stones for cutting did ancient humans faced selective ...

The bone tools were created the same way tools were made from stone.

The newly discovered bone tools, which consist of 27 deliberately split and chipped large mammal long bones, were recovered ...

When ancient humans first invented stone tools, they may have been trying to emulate naturally formed sharp stones, meaning they would not have needed a huge leap of inspiration. Can we ever know ...

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

Ancient humans were regularly making tools out of animal bones 1.5 million years ago – more than a million years earlier than ...

The development of tool technology is considered a pivotal step in human evolution. Deliberately shaped stones are thought to have emerged in cultures more ancient than our own genus Homo to strip ...