A new study takes another look at some of the oldest known stone tools and suggests their makers transported materials for up ...

Early human ancestors during the Old Stone Age were more picky about the rocks they used for making tools than previously known, according to research published Friday. Not only did these early people ...

Scientists used mechanical tests to identify the advantages of different materials -- including quartzite, chert and basalt -- for Early Stone tools. Photo by Alaistar Key, et al./Journal of the ...

Long before guns and bombs, humans fought with tools made of stone, wood, and bone. These early weapons shaped survival, war, and the future of our species ...

Small stone blades and a reddish body pigment recently discovered in a cave near the southern tip of South Africa suggest that the use of symbolism and tools -- hallmarks of modern human behavior ...

When monkeys in Thailand use stones as hammers and anvils to help them crack open nuts, they often accidentally create sharp flakes of rock that look like the stone cutting tools made by early humans.

Early humans used animal bones to craft tools — more than a million years earlier than scientists previously thought, according to new research published this week.

A new Tel Aviv University-led study reveals that the early humans known as Acheulians crafted tiny flint tools out of recycled larger discarded instruments as part of a comprehensive animal ...

A collection of broken wooden tools unearthed in southern Italy offers new evidence that Neanderthals used fire to shape wooden tools as early as the Middle Paleocene, about 171,000 years ago. The ...

Early human ancestors during the Old Stone Age were more picky about the rocks they used for making tools than previously ...