A deer rib pulled from an ancient butchery site in central China carried an unexpected clue. Inside the bone, calcite ...

Ancient human relatives moved diverse stones over substantial distances, researchers report, revealing a surprisingly high degree of forward planning 600,000 years earlier than experts previously ...

The oldest stone tools discovered were found in a 3.3-million-year-old archaeological site in West Turkana, Kenya, according to findings published in 2015 in the journal, "Nature." The authors called ...

“The calcite crystals inside the bone acted like a natural clock, allowing us to refine the age of the site,” Zhao explained. Previously, researchers thought that the tools found in Lingjing were ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Ancient stone tools found in western Ukraine may be the oldest known evidence of early human presence in Europe, according to research published Wednesday in the journal Nature. The ...

Three of the stone tools from the Korolevo archaeological site (photos courtesy Roman Garba) A new study of ancient stone tools discovered in western Ukraine suggests they may be the oldest known ...

At a site in Kenya, archaeologists recently unearthed layer upon layer of stone stools from deposits that span 300,000 years, and include a period of intense environmental upheaval. The oldest tools ...

A close look at a Quina-like scraper from Jaljulia. Credit: Tel Aviv University A new study from Tel Aviv University identified the earliest appearance worldwide of special stone tools, used 400,000 ...

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