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 ...
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, ...
Tokyo, Japan – Researchers from Tokyo Metropolitan University crafted replica stone age tools and used them for a range of tasks to see how different activities create traces on the edge. They found ...
Our ancestors in Kenya's Southern Rift Valley made some pretty innovative tools. And they made them far earlier than previously thought. The oldest innovations were axes designed to be held in the ...
Imagine a tool from the Stone Age. You're probably thinking of something in the shape of a leaf, with at least one of its sides fashioned into a point. But whether that point is sharp or blunt, smooth ...
The first tools made by our early Stone Age ancestors were simple, but monumental. Hammerstones, handaxes, and sharpened flakes were their implements of choice — all carved from rock and used for ...
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, ...