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 ...

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 ...

This stone tool found on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi, along with six others, suggest hominins were present on the island and making tools far earlier than thought. M. W. Moore / Griffith ...

Fort McCoy has archaeological sites within its boundaries that represent more than 10,000 years of history. Most of the artifacts from those sites which pre-date European contact are either stone ...

Archaeologists with the Colorado State University (CSU) Center for Environmental Management of Military Lands (CEMML) were investigating an archaeological site near the North Flowage when they ...

Archaeologists surveying a desert region in Egypt found several ancient workshops filled with Stone Age artifacts, a study said and photos show. Photo from Leplongeon, Bailly and Graff (2024) Scanning ...

Nearly 3 million years ago, hominids employed stone tool kits to butcher hippos and pound plants along what’s now the shores of Kenya’s Lake Victoria, researchers say. Evidence of those food ...

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Monkeys in modern-day Thai forests create stone artifacts uncannily similar to those crafted by early humans — challenging the established narrative of human cultural evolution. A new study published ...

New technologies today often involve electronic devices that are smaller and smarter than before. During the Middle Paleolithic, when Neanderthals were modern humans’ neighbors, new technologies meant ...

Archaeologists found ancient remains left by cave bears and humans in a cave in Germany, officials said. Archaeological Service Tschuch (AST) / BLfD While exploring a cave in Germany, archaeologists ...