A new study asks what drove prehistoric humans to collect and recycle flint tools that had been made, used, and discarded by their predecessors. After examining flint tools from one layer at the ...

Olduvai Gorge in northern Tanzania boasts sediment layers dating back to about 1.8 million years ago. Those layers contain simple stone tools that marked one of the earliest recorded technological ...

(Reuters) -Artifacts found at archeological sites in France and Spain along the Bay of Biscay shoreline show that humans have been crafting tools from whale bones since more than 20,000 years ago, ...

Back before we discovered metallurgy, people shaped stones into the tools they needed for survival. This Stone Age technology is the theme of a program from 1:30 to 3:30 p.m. April 9 at Coyote Hills ...

The oldest collection of mass-produced prehistoric bone tools reveal that human ancestors were likely capable of more advanced abstract reasoning one million years earlier than thought, finds a new ...

WASHINGTON, Feb 9 (Reuters) - Scientists have a mystery on their hands after the discovery of 330 stone tools about 2.9 million years old at a site in Kenya, along Lake Victoria's shores, that were ...

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prehistoric human beings collected and recycled old tools, possibly to ...

Visitors to Stonehenge this summer will have the chance to experience a unique slice of prehistoric life thanks to the reconstruction of a 4,500-year-old building that scholars think once stood nearby ...

The oldest collection of mass-produced prehistoric bone tools reveal that human ancestors were likely capable of more advanced abstract reasoning one million years earlier than thought, finds a new ...