Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Reconstruction of Xigou tool-making. (CREDIT: Hulk Yuan) Old beliefs about early human behavior in East Asia are being challenged ...

Archaeologists have uncovered primitive sharp-edged stone tools on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi, adding another piece to an evolutionary puzzle involving mysterious ancient humans who lived in a ...

Long before there were maps or names for continents, a handful of people stood at the edge of the world. Picture them on a frozen shoreline in what’s now Japan or Russia, staring east across the gray ...

This article details the groundbreaking archaeological findings at the Rimrock Draw Rockshelter in Southeastern Oregon.

Homo erectus may have deliberately selected rocks embedded with fossils and crystals to craft their hand axes — possibly to ...

In southwestern Kenya more than 2.6 million years ago, ancient humans wielded an array of stone tools—known collectively as the Oldowan toolkit—to pound plant material and carve up large prey such as ...

Archaeologists in Israel unearthed prehistoric hand axes that Homo erectus crafted from stones including fossils and crystals ...

Oldowan stone tools made from a variety of raw materials sourced more than 6 miles away from where they were found in southwestern Kenya. The development of the Oldowan toolkit made it possible for ...

Researchers have found that nearly every stone tool at a specific 400,000-year-old bison hunting site came from the same local rock. That unexpected uniformity links toolmaking directly to large, ...

Archaeologists have uncovered a ‘once-in-a-lifetime’ archaeological treasure trove within Wogan Cavern, a massive ...