Before hominins intentionally chipped stone to make tools, they likely used sharp rocks already shaped by natural forces.

Sharp stone technology chipped over three million years allowed early humans to exploit animal and plant food resources. But how did the production of stone tools -- called 'knapping' -- start?

According to a report by The Baltimore Banner, a team of volunteers and archaeologists from the Maryland Historical Trust ...

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

But how did the production of stone tools—called "knapping"—start? "I don't think it was a 'Eureka!' moment whereby hominins first made a sharp stone flake by intention or by accident and then ...

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

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

Recent research provides compelling evidence that Middle Paleolithic peoples created deliberate patterns on stone artifacts ...