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.

leading researchers to question which human ancestor first developed stone-age tools. Excavations at the Lake Victoria-adjacent dig site in Kenya. The excavation site, located on the Homa ...

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

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

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 ...

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.

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.

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Ancient DNA from 9,000-year-old skeletons found in South Africa reveals genetic continuity, refuting theories about waves of ...

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 ...

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 ...