Archaeologists Nicholas Toth and Kathy Schick, both at Indiana University, began working with Kanzi in 1990 to teach him and his sister Panbanisha how to make stone tools by using one rock as a ...

If the beginning of farming in peninsular India triggered a unique cultural dynamic that led to the formation of a Megalithic ...

The ancestors of humans started making tools about 3.3 million years ago. First they made them out of stone, then they switched to bone as a raw material. Until recently, the earliest clear evidence ...

The discovery of 1.5-million-year-old bone tools in Tanzania suggests early human ancestors had advanced cognitive abilities and systematically crafted tools from bone much earlier than previously ...

The bone tools were created the same way tools were made from stone.

Stone tools recently discovered in Ukraine could potentially rewrite history as the oldest evidence of human presence in ...

A cache of 1.5 million-year-old bone tools uncovered in Tanzania suggest ancient human ancestors were capable of critical thinking and advanced craftsmanship.

This is really exciting." The Stone Age began with the use of stone tools about 3 million years ago (before modern humans existed) and ended about 5,000 years ago in parts of North Africa and Europe ...

The study, published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) of the United States, reveals that yellow-breasted capuchin monkeys in Brazil inadvertently produce sharp stone ...

Throughout history, cultures have left behind a trail of breadcrumbs for archaeologists to follow. New sites and artifacts ...

The very earliest stone tools come from the "Oldowan" age which stretched from about 2.7 million years ago to 1.5 million years ago. It employs a simple method for making stone tools, by chipping ...

Archaeologists have discovered the remains of at least five woolly mammoths at a site in Austria. The remains suggest that ...