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

Two unassuming pieces of wood recovered from a prehistoric lakeshore in southern Greece have become a headline-grabbing rarity - the oldest known handheld wooden tools, dated to around 430,000 years ...

The "very rare" find provides an extraordinary glimpse into the ingenuity of early human relatives who lived around half a ...

Camera trap footage of a white-faced capuchin monkey from Isla Jicarón, Coiba National Park, Panama. Some groups of capuchins in the park have begun using stone tools, which may give insight into how ...

While the scientific fields of planetary geology and archaeology don’t initially seem like a natural pairing, their unique methodological and technological overlap provides scientists with a better ...

Outcome of a session held at the 2008 meeting of the Society for American Archaeology (SAA) in Vancouver, British Columbia. Introduction: new directions for the digital past / Eric C. Kansa -- A Web ...

Finds from Greece and Britain suggest early hominins were shaping wood and bone with far more intention and ingenuity than ...

The finding, along with the discovery of a 500,000-year-old hammer made of bone, indicates that our human ancestors were ...