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 ...

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

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

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

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 ...

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

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