The recent uncovering of ancient Tibetan relics has shed light on the sophisticated toolmaking techniques employed by early human civilizations. This discovery not only offers a glimpse into the ...

Stone-age humans mastered the art of elegant hand-toolmaking in an evolutionary advance that boosted their brain power and potentially paved the way for language, researchers say. The design of stone ...

New Caledonian crows are known for their toolmaking, but Alex Taylor and his colleagues wanted to understand just how advanced they could be. New Caledonian crows are known for their toolmaking, but ...

It’s not easy to carve a stone hand ax – a tool that the long-extinct cousins of our species were making nearly two million years ago. First, you’ve got to pick a suitable chunk of flint that will ...

Recent archaeological findings suggest that early modern humans arriving in Europe around 45,000 years ago may have been inspired by Neanderthal toolmaking techniques, such as the Levallois method, ...

Learn more about the differences between Lebanese and Italian tools, which contradict the theory that modern human migrations spread a single stone tool culture from the Near East to Europe. There’s ...

Evidence of advanced toolmaking The team's study, now published in Science Advances, examines seven ochre pieces discovered in the sediments found in Blombos Cave, dated to approximately 90,000 to ...

Scientists have long pointed to excavated stone tools as evidence that early humans passed down their culture. But new research is shaking up that understanding. Modern humans around the world have ...

Long, long ago, even before they became fully human, our African ancestors fashioned the first stone tools to butcher their meat, and when they showed their neighbors how to do it, those two groups ...