If these kinds of traces were indeed found on genuine Stone Age tools, it would be evidence that humans had been working with wood and honing techniques significantly earlier than previously believed.

A study of prehistoric bone tools from the Bay of Biscay revealed that they were 20,000 years old, the oldest known example ...

Stone Age humans scavenged the skeletons of several whale species along the Bay of Biscay in what is now southwestern France ...

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Step into the brutal world of the Stone Age, where survival meant mastering the art of weaponry. Explore the savage tools our ancestors wielded—from bone daggers to stone-tipped arrows—and uncover the ...

Tokyo, Japan – Researchers from Tokyo Metropolitan University crafted replica stone age tools and used them for a range of tasks to see how different activities create traces on the edge.

The tools date back to around 2.9 million years ... explained anthropologist Kathy Schick of the Stone Age Institute in Indiana, who wasn’t involved in the research. With the rocks and flakes ...

This means the archaeological record of human tool use is deeply skewed towards the much hardier stone ... with the first stone tools and the dawn of the Stone Age over 3 million years ago.

Neanderthals were even better craftsmen than thought, a new analysis of 300,000-year-old wooden tools has revealed. By Franz Lidz In 1836, Christian Jürgensen Thomsen, a Danish antiquarian ...

to re-create and hunt with the tools of our Stone Age ancestors. Today, as the owner of Hunt Primitive, Gill spends most of his waking hours building self bows and atlatls and crafting wooden ...

Archaeologists in Kenya have dug up some of the oldest stone tools ever found, dating back to around 2.9 million years ago, but who used them is a mystery, according to a study published Thursday ...

The tools date back to around 2.9 million years ... explained anthropologist Kathy Schick of the Stone Age Institute in Indiana, who wasn’t involved in the research. With the rocks and flakes ...