Archeologists have uncovered three-million-year-old tools used by early ... The discovery of stone-made knives may show a major development in early humans that propelled intuitive evolution.

Around 40,000 years ago, Neanderthals living in what we now call France crafted tool handles using a special sticky substance. This sticky mix was made from ochre and bitumen, materials they gathered ...

Modern chimpanzees select rock tools in similar ways to Oldowan hominins, early humans who used stone tools that date back to around 2.5 million years ago. According to a new study, these ...

Starch remnants on the tools indicates crushing or grinding — providing evidence that the early hominids used the tools akin to a Stone-Age Cuisinart. Archeologists had previously found what they call ...

An international study reveals how early humans, as far back as 1. ... researchers discovered a wide array of tools. But why were certain types of stone chosen over others? The answer lies in ...

There has been significant debate over when early hominins acquired the adaptability ... and developing specialised stone tools such as scrapers and notched tools (known as denticulates), which ...

A stone anvil (left ... also reveals the sophisticated methods that early humans used to process plant materials. The basalt tools include mace-type objects and anvils, which would have been ...

In the latest study, the researchers wanted to investigate the patterns of stone tool ... in their group then early humans [could] very quickly identify and use the best tools for certain tasks.

The stone tools were found at Gesher Benot Ya’akov ... A Tel Aviv University study from 2021 argued that early humans were efficient apex predators that only began consuming plant foods in ...