New technologies today often involve electronic devices that are smaller and smarter than before. During the Middle ...

Archaeologists in China have found stone technology previously thought to have been used by Neanderthals in Europe, ...

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

A style of primitive stone tools named for the French site where they were first discovered have shown up half a world away.

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

But how did the production of stone tools—called "knapping"—start? Three Cleveland Museum of Natural History researchers have proposed a new hypothesis for the origin of stone technology in human ...

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

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

While the Middle Paleolithic period is viewed as a dynamic time in European and African history, it is commonly considered a ...

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

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 ...

A new study by Dr. Margherita Mussi, published in Quaternary International, highlights how naturally occurring basalt spheres ...