Among 500,000-year-old elephant remains at a Lower Paleolithic site in Revadim, Israel, archaeologists recently analyzed 'hand axes' and 'scrapers,' universally shaped and sized prehistoric stone ...

An international team of experts has identified sophisticated stone implements in a cave in Southern China, which they describe as the “Swiss Army knife of prehistoric tools.” The carved stone tools ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Scientists have a mystery on their hands after the discovery of 330 stone tools about 2.9 million years old at a site in Kenya, along Lake Victoria's shores, that were used to ...

Have you ever wondered how you might survive out in the wild with absolutely nothing and everything you needed had to be either gathered, hunted, or handcrafted? How would you make the necessary tools ...

Discovery of complex pre-historic tools in China suggests our ancestors were far more advanced than thought - Find suggests prehistoric humans showed complex planning and understanding of how to enhan ...

(Reuters) -Artifacts found at archeological sites in France and Spain along the Bay of Biscay shoreline show that humans have been crafting tools from whale bones since more than 20,000 years ago, ...

As an archaeologist, Terry Powell often wondered how effective the tools made by prehistoric man really were. "I was just real curious how they worked," Powell said. "Did they work? I assume they did.

On a small hill surrounded by boggy muskeg in the Tanana River Valley, prehistoric skin scrapers made of schist, polished slate tools and glass beads were uncovered in the last week. Based on the ...

A first-of-its-kind study at Tel Aviv University asks what drove prehistoric humans to collect and recycle flint tools that had been made, used, and discarded by their predecessors. After examining ...

Back before we discovered metallurgy, people shaped stones into the tools they needed for survival. This Stone Age technology is the theme of a program from 1:30 to 3:30 p.m. April 9 at Coyote Hills ...