Long, long ago, even before they became fully human, our African ancestors fashioned the first stone tools to butcher their meat, and when they showed their neighbors how to do it, those two groups ...

Stone-age humans mastered the art of elegant hand-toolmaking in an evolutionary advance that boosted their brain power and potentially paved the way for language, researchers say. The design of stone ...

It’s not easy to carve a stone hand ax – a tool that the long-extinct cousins of our species were making nearly two million years ago. First, you’ve got to pick a suitable chunk of flint that will ...

Plotting the gradual advancement mankind is a tricky thing for archaeologists. Researchers are forced to draw from rare artifacts, using them to make rough estimates of when certain groups of ...

Learn more about the differences between Lebanese and Italian tools, which contradict the theory that modern human migrations spread a single stone tool culture from the Near East to Europe. There’s ...

Scientists have long pointed to excavated stone tools as evidence that early humans passed down their culture. But new research is shaking up that understanding. Modern humans around the world have ...

Stone-tool makers living in southern Africa 75,000 years ago pushed the cutting edge in more ways than one. These intrepid folk sharpened the thin tips of heated stone spearheads using a forceful ...

Fashioning stone-age tools is no picnic. Emory researchers spend years learning to imitate the technological skills of human ancestors who lived hundreds of thousands of years ago If you're enjoying ...

Pressure flaking is a retouching technique that was used by prehistoric toolmakers to shape stone tips. They pressed the narrow end of a tool close to the edge of a piece they were working on to ...

“We did get some funny looks when we first started wheeling carts of rocks into a state-of-the-art neuroimaging lab,” writes Dietrich Stout in this issue's cover story, “Tales of a Stone Age ...

Aspen and Cameron Decker present “Our Belongings: Sqelixʷ (Salish) Art and Toolmaking” on Feb. 2 as part of the John White series at the Northwest Montana History Museum in Kalispell. Aspen is an ...