When Japanese scientists wanted to learn more about how ground stone tools dating back to the Early Upper Paleolithic might have been used, they decided to build their own replicas of adzes, axes, and ...

George Washington University archaeologist David Braun and his colleagues recently unearthed stone tools from a 2.75 ...

Have you ever found yourself in a museum’s gallery of human origins, staring at a glass case full of rocks labeled “stone tools,” muttering under your breath, “How do they know it’s not just any old ...

Long before the first sparks of civilization — or even humanity as we know it — our ancestors were already inventors. On the ...

Adam Brumm receives funding from the Australian Research Council. Basran Burhan is a researcher at Pusat Kolaborasi Riset Arkeologi Sulawesi (BRIN-Universitas Hasanuddin). Gerrit (Gert) van den Bergh ...

John K. Murray does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond ...

While early human ancestors started making stone tools at least 2.6 million years ago, bone tools took much longer to appear. The earliest signs of a regular use of bone tools hadn’t shown up in the ...

Long before there were maps or names for continents, a handful of people stood at the edge of the world. Picture them on a frozen shoreline in what’s now Japan or Russia, staring east across the gray ...