The discovery of 1.5-million-year-old bone tools in Tanzania suggests early human ancestors had advanced cognitive abilities ...

The bone tools were created the same way tools were made from stone.

Awls were small, pointed hand tools employed in both the Old and New World to slice fibers for thread and fishing nets, and to punch holes in leather and wood. Stone Age peoples may also have ...

Archaeologists have found a large collection of ancient stone tools in Iraq ... also known as the Old Stone Age. The press release suggests these hand axes could be 1.5 million years old.

With this data in hand, and with numerous populations sampled ... Stereotypical ‘Later Stone Age tools', for example, are now recognized in many Middle Stone Age assemblages (e.g., McBrearty ...

They used flint tools to hunt animals ... JavaScript is required to view this activity. In the early Stone Age, people made simple hand-axes out of stones. They made hammers from bones or antlers ...

The excavation of bone tools at Olduvai Gorge in Tanzania expands the range of ancient hominids’ cultural innovations.

Stone tools recently discovered in Ukraine could potentially rewrite history as the oldest evidence of human presence in ...