Researchers believe the ancient wood, found in Greece, is actually evidence of the earliest hand-held wooden tool usage in ...

Used by our early human ancestors around 430,000 years ago, the earliest known hand-held wooden tools have been uncovered by ...

The discovery was made in southern Greece, where two objects - thought to be around 430,000 years old - were found.

Our ancient ancestors weren’t fumbling with crude rocks. A groundbreaking archaeological discovery in Kenya reveals they had mastered a stone tool technology so effective that they stuck with it for ...

An international team has discovered the earliest known hand-held wooden tools used by humans. A study jointly led by ...

Learn how two wooden tools discovered in Greece mark the earliest known evidence of humans shaping wood, moving the timeline ...

Old beliefs about early human behavior in East Asia are being challenged by the discovery of a richly-layered archaeological ...

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 ...

Ancient tools from central China are flipping the script, revealing early humans were far more innovative than history once gave them credit for.

International research team from Germany, the UK and Greece finds evidence of wooden tool use in Greece 430,000 years ago ...

Learn about a 500,000-year old hammer made from elephant bone, used by early humans in England to sharpen stone tools.

The finding, along with the discovery of a 500,000-year-old hammer made of bone, indicates that our human ancestors were ...