Ancient wooden tools found at a site in Gantangqing in southwestern China are approximately 300,000 years old, new dating has shown. Discovered during excavations carried out in 2014–15 and 2018–19, ...

The 6,500-year-old weapons, found in a cave near Marfa, could be among the oldest near-complete set of wood and stone hunting tools found in North America. By Livia Albeck-Ripka The 6,500-year-old ...

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Most of the time, the past survives as debris scattered across millennia—animal bones here, a broken spear tip there, the fading embers of an ancient hearth. But in the rolling hills of southern ...

Archaeologists have uncovered primitive sharp-edged stone tools on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi, adding another piece to an evolutionary puzzle involving mysterious ancient humans who lived in a ...

NEW YORK — By taking a wrong turn in a dry riverbed in Kenya, scientists discovered a trove of stone tools far older than any ever found before. Nobody knows who made them — or why. At 3.3 million ...

The Quina technology discovered in East Asia was a set of stone tools for making other tools. Prehistoric sites in Europe that host similar tools are associated with Neanderthals. Ben Marwick During ...

Archaeologists determined that seven stone tools found on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi date back to somewhere between 1.04–1.48 million years ago and belonged to an ancient human species yet to ...

In a quiet village in Scotland, a toddler’s playtime unexpectedly turned into a prehistoric discovery when a fossilized stone in the mud revealed itself to be part of a tree that lived hundreds of ...

This stone tool found on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi, along with six others, suggest hominins were present on the island and making tools far earlier than thought. M. W. Moore, Screenshot via ...

Stone tools found at Calio on Indonesia’s Sulawesi island (M W Moore) The tools include sharp-edged stone fragments that the ancient humans made from larger pebbles likely taken from nearby riverbeds.