The oldest tools discovered thus far date back to our early ancestors, around 2.6 million years ago. While these tools were rudimentary (often unaltered sticks and rocks found on ...

Archaeologists previously assumed that East Asia did not see considerable tool development during the Middle Paleolithic, but ...

"Finding the same tools and the same methods used to make these tools across this entire country suggests that people were ...

Naumenko published in the International Journal of Osteoarchaeology on the ivory artifacts from the Lower Paleolithic site of Medzhibozh A in Ukraine pushes back the earliest known use of ivory as a ...

Thousands of stone tools discovered in a South African cave reveal that Ice Age humans had developed sophisticated fabrication techniques about 20,000 years ago, according to a report in the Journal ...

"While we cannot yet confirm the presence of Neanderthals in China — who were responsible for the Middle Paleolithic (tools) in Europe and Central Asia — we know that their 'sister' species ...

By examining tiny details in the chipped edges of the blades and stones, archaeologists are able to tell how the tools were made. In a study published in the Journal of Paleolithic Archaeology ...