A 35,000-year-old stone ax discovered in northern Australia is the oldest known tool with ground edges, researchers reported on Saturday (Nov. 6). Humans' hominid ancestors have been using stone tools ...

Imagine if tens of thousands of years from now, archaeologists were to dig up a pile of wrecked, 20th century cars and try to figure out what people did with the strange-looking things. After ...

Archaeologists say they have found the earliest known example of a stone tool used for abrading surfaces, dating it to 150,000 years before such tools were thought to have first been used. Prehistoric ...

16:38, Sun, Dec 27, 2020 Updated: 16:38, Sun, Dec 27, 2020 Archaeologists believe the seemingly inconspicuous rock predates the earliest known usage of such tools by some 150,000 years. The discovery ...

A recent study conducted by researchers from the Autonomous University of Barcelona (UAB) has revealed the profound symbolic significance of grinding tools used by the first Neolithic societies of ...