Our prehistoric human ancestors relied on deliberately modified and sharpened stone tools as early as 3.3 million years ago. The selection of rock type depended on how easily the material could be ...

A statistical analysis of a series of signs carved into artifacts from around 40,000 years ago suggests humans developed ...

An ancient elephant bone hammer from southern England reveals that early humans used rare materials to precisely sharpen ...

New tool discoveries show that early humans crossed a major deep-sea barrier to reach the Indonesian island of Sulawesi much earlier than previously thought. Researchers from Griffith University and ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Early human ancestors during the Old Stone Age were more picky about the rocks they used for making tools than previously known, according to research published Friday. Not only did ...

Earlier migrations relied on “green corridors”—temporary windows of perfect weather that allowed people to move through ...

For decades, textbooks painted a dramatic picture of early humans as tool-using hunters who rose quickly to the top of the food chain. The tale was that Homo habilis, one of the earliest ...

Stone tools found in Israel are at least 1.9 million years old, showing humans left Africa earlier than scientists once believed.