Have you ever found yourself in a museum’s gallery of human origins, staring at a glass case full of rocks labeled “stone tools,” muttering under your breath, “How do they know it’s not just any old ...

Archaeologists have discovered a giant hand ax that is thought to be more than 200,000 years old. An international team of research researchers uncovered the prehistoric stone artifact during an ...

Hitting on a corner of the blade will cause unpredictable breaks and can damage the hammer. The blade of the hammer should make full contact with the stone, as in the photo on the far right. [3, ...

Nov. 29 (UPI) --Stone tools unearthed in Saudi Arabia suggest early human ancestors were living on the Arabian Peninsula as recently as 190,000 years ago. Stone hand ...

Our ancestors in Kenya's Southern Rift Valley made some pretty innovative tools. And they made them far earlier than previously thought. The oldest innovations were axes designed to be held in the ...

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