When people imagine the earliest human tools, they usually picture weapons. Stone handaxes, sharpened spears and heavy clubs have long dominated both archaeology textbooks and popular culture, ...

Our prehistoric human ancestors relied on deliberately modified and sharpened stone tools as early as 3.3 million years ago. The selection of rock type depended on how easily the material could be ...

Researchers believe they've found the earliest known use of hand-held wooden tools in human history. The team points to artifacts from Greece of crafted pieces of alder and either willow or poplar, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A 430,000-year-old wooden tool from Greece, top, that may have been used for digging and various angles of the tool, below.

An international team has discovered the earliest known hand-held wooden tools used by humans. A study jointly led by Professor Katerina Harvati from the Senckenberg Centre for Human Evolution and ...

(CN) — Stone tools uncovered in central China suggest early humans there were far more inventive than scientists once believed, making complex tools tens of thousands of years earlier than expected.

Early humans in England crafted a rare piece of elephant bone into a reusable hammer for sharpening stone tools nearly 500,000 years ago. The extraordinary find reveals that ancient toolmakers were ...

Learn about a 500,000-year old hammer made from elephant bone, used by early humans in England to sharpen stone tools. Our ancient ancestors crafted ingenious tools made not just from stone, but from ...

Credit: Peiqi Zhang / CC BY-NC 4.0 Stone tools dating back as far as 45,000 years are offering new clues about a mysterious ...