A simple stick, shaped by ancient hands roughly 430,000 years ago, is rewriting what researchers thought they knew about ...

Two artifacts found at a lake shore in Greece are the oldest wooden tools to be uncovered so far and date back 430,000 years.

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

Ancient tools from central China are flipping the script, revealing early humans were far more innovative than history once gave them credit for.

Just over 50 years ago, paleontologist Donald Johnson unearthed the remains of "Lucy," an ancient human relative who lived more than 3 million years ago. Now, another group of scientists have found ...

Discovered during excavations at Boxgrove in West Sussex, the ancient hammer is among the oldest elephant bone tools ever ...

Two unassuming pieces of wood recovered from a prehistoric lakeshore in southern Greece have become a headline-grabbing rarity - the oldest known handheld wooden tools, dated to around 430,000 years ...

Stone tool analysis of sites in Southeast Asia provided evidence that the area was a technological leader in seafaring. Archaeology supports that 40,000 years ago, the people living in Southeast Asia ...

Archaeologists are uncovering toolkits and watercraft that do not sit neatly inside the familiar story of slow, linear progress from scattered foragers to settled farmers. Instead, these finds hint at ...

In a cave overlooking the ocean on the southern coast of South Africa, archaeologists discovered thousands of stone tools, created by ancient humans roughly 20,000 years ago. By examining tiny details ...

A joint team of archaeologists, chronologists, geologists, and paleontologists have successfully dated a hoard of wooden tools recovered nearly a decade ago, Ancient Origins reported. The ancient ...