Archaeologists in China’s Yunnan province unearthed stone tools crafted in a style associated with Neanderthals that hasn’t ...

Tools were once thought to have arisen out of Africa and Europe, then spread eastward. New findings challenge that assumption.

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 ...

Stone tools are considered the first form of technology devised by ancient humans – but they might not have been invented ...

Sharp stone technology chipped over three million years allowed early humans to exploit animal and plant food resources. But how did the production of stone tools -- called 'knapping' -- start?

Before hominins intentionally chipped stone to make tools, they likely used sharp rocks already shaped by natural forces.

Archaeologists in China have found stone technology previously thought to have been used by Neanderthals in Europe, ...

Archaeologists have thought that ancient people in East Asia completely skipped the Middle Paleolithic. Our discovery challenges the long-standing notion that while ancient people in Europe and Africa ...

These were the communities created by New Stone Age or Neolithic peoples who hacked out clearings for their crops using stone tools. The most striking monuments of the Neolithic era are the stone ...

including when and how they journeyed to the New World, but experts agree that the answers could someday crystallize from the ever-emerging technological evidence Stone Age humans left behind.