Used by our early human ancestors around 430,000 years ago, the earliest known hand-held wooden tools have been uncovered by ...

Archaeologists in central China have uncovered evidence that early humans were far more inventive than long assumed. Excavations at the Xigou site reveal advanced stone tools, including the earliest ...

Archaeologists have found the oldest-known surviving examples of handheld wooden tools.

Our prehistoric human ancestors relied on deliberately modified and sharpened stone tools as early as 3.3 million years ago.

Learn how two wooden tools discovered in Greece mark the earliest known evidence of humans shaping wood, moving the timeline ...

Researchers identified early handled tools that archeologists previously thought were not created in East Asia until ...

The earliest hominins in Europe shared their environment with large mammals and elephants were some of the largest animals ...

An archaeological discovery of two artifacts in southern Greece are the oldest known handheld wooden tools fashioned by early human ancestors.

"Researchers have argued for decades that while hominins in Africa and western Europe demonstrated significant technological ...

Old beliefs about early human behavior in East Asia are being challenged by the discovery of a richly-layered archaeological ...

The finding, along with the discovery of a 500,000-year-old hammer made of bone, indicates that our human ancestors were ...