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?

Researchers found that our ancestors used various stone tools to grind and pulp food to extract starch for consumption.

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

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

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 ...

Researchers extract plant residues from ancient bedrock metates, revealing insights into early diets and traditional plant ...

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

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

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

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

The ancestors of humans started making tools about 3.3 million years ago. First they made them out of stone, then they switched to bone as a raw material. Until recently, the earliest clear evidence ...