When Japanese scientists wanted to learn more about how ground stone tools dating back to the Early Upper Paleolithic might have been used, they decided to build their own replicas of adzes, axes, and ...

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Ancient wooden tools found at a site in Gantangqing in southwestern China are approximately 300,000 years old, new dating has shown. Discovered during excavations carried out in 2014–15 and 2018–19, ...

A team of archeologists in South Africa had to climb to new heights to find an important set of tools made by humans about 20,000 years ago. These newly discovered stone tools were embedded in a cave ...

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These weren’t just sharpened rocks. Stone Age weapons were engineered for one thing—damage. From flint daggers to barbed ...

The researchers say their study pushes back the dates for the use of spear-throwers in Europe by more than 10,000 years. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate ...

In 1836, Christian Jürgensen Thomsen, a Danish antiquarian, brought the first semblance of order to prehistory, suggesting that the early hominids of Europe had gone through three stages of ...

A famous 15th-century painting was hiding a prehistoric secret in plain sight, researchers from Dartmouth University and the University of Cambridge have recently discovered. Their study revealed that ...