Used by our early human ancestors around 430,000 years ago, the earliest known hand-held wooden tools have been uncovered by ...

Old beliefs about early human behavior in East Asia are being challenged by the discovery of a richly-layered archaeological ...

Researchers identified early handled tools that archeologists previously thought were not created in East Asia until ...

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 ...

Researchers believe the ancient wood, found in Greece, is actually evidence of the earliest hand-held wooden tool usage in ...

Early humans in England used elephant bone to sharpen stone tools, revealing advanced planning, material knowledge, and ...

An international team has discovered the earliest known hand-held wooden tools used by humans. A study jointly led by ...

A roughly 500,000-year-old elephant bone hammer has been discovered in Boxgrove, England. This find ...

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

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

Oldowan stone tools made from a variety of raw materials sourced more than six miles away from where they were found in southwestern Kenya. In southwestern Kenya more than 2.6 million years ago, ...

A simple stick, shaped by ancient hands roughly 430,000 years ago, is rewriting what researchers thought they knew about ...