Among 500,000-year-old elephant remains at a Lower Paleolithic site in Revadim, Israel, archaeologists recently analyzed 'hand axes' and 'scrapers,' universally shaped and sized prehistoric stone ...

An international team of experts has identified sophisticated stone implements in a cave in Southern China, which they describe as the “Swiss Army knife of prehistoric tools.” The carved stone tools ...

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 ...

As an archaeologist, Terry Powell often wondered how effective the tools made by prehistoric man really were. "I was just real curious how they worked," Powell said. "Did they work? I assume they did.

(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, ...

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 ...

Have you ever wondered how you might survive out in the wild with absolutely nothing and everything you needed had to be either gathered, hunted, or handcrafted? How would you make the necessary tools ...

On a small hill surrounded by boggy muskeg in the Tanana River Valley, prehistoric skin scrapers made of schist, polished slate tools and glass beads were uncovered in the last week. Based on the ...

Forget clubs. Real “cave men” actually used complex tools as far back as 170,000 years ago, a new study says. In fact, artifacts recently found at an archaeological site in China show that one type of ...

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 ...

Last May, when Patrick Mahaffy was digging in his yard in Boulder, Colo., his shovel struck archaeological gold—a cache of 83 shaped stones that turned out to be prehistoric tools. The tools dates ...