A handful of stone tools found on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi has pushed back the date that human relatives arrived in ...

Figure 1: Wild bearded capuchin SoS percussion, Serra da Capivara National Park, Brazil. As well as deliberately crushing the surface of both the active and passive hammers, the capuchins regularly ...

The wild-bearded capuchin monkeys of Brazil's Serra da Capivara National Park like to smash rocks. Frequently, these primates will grab a rounded “hammer stone,” or quartzite cobble, and bash it ...

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 ...

George Washington University archaeologist David Braun and his colleagues recently unearthed stone tools from a 2.75 million-year-old layer of Kenyan sediment at a site called Nomorotukunan. They’re ...

Sites where chimpanzees used stone tools to crack open nuts look very much like early human archeological sites - which suggests the differences between "us" and "them" are narrower than many believed ...

More than 80 Stone Age tools have been unearthed at a farm in Dartmoor in the U.K. Experts believe these tools may be 8,000 years old, made by our hunter-gatherer ancestors. The site, located near the ...

The first stone tools that ancient humans made were deceptively simple. At least 2.6 million years ago, our ancestors learned to strike stones and break off sharp flakes that could function as knives.

University of Wollongong researchers have experimentally confirmed that changes in hammer strike angle significantly affect the fracture path and form of stone flakes produced by Neanderthals during ...