Archaeologists previously assumed that East Asia did not see considerable tool development during the Middle Paleolithic, but ...

In a nutshell Stone Age humans mastered fire technology during Earth’s harshest climate period 23,000 years ago, creating ...

Large cutting tools first appear in the Acheulean and are the hallmark of mode 2 lithic technology. Specific LCT forms include handaxes, picks, and cleavers. Later Stone Age (LSA): A prehistoric ...

New archaeological discoveries from Malta suggest that prehistoric hunter-gatherers were far more capable oflong-distance sea ...

They had Stone Age technology, but their vision was millennia ahead of their time. Five thousand years ago the ancient inhabitants of Orkney—a fertile, green archipelago off the northern tip of ...

This artifact was used for stitching hides. Stone Age technology included delicate sewing needles made of bone with punched eyeholes. They were probably used in tandem with thread fashioned from ...

They once thought their appearance was revolutionary. But more recent findings show that stone age technology developed and spread more slowly. The stone scraper — thick, asymmetrical, and with a ...

Archaeologists in China have found stone technology previously thought to have been used by Neanderthals in Europe, ...

was part of a new Stone Age technology that helped make better-fed, smarter hominins. On the Homa Peninsula in southwestern Kenya, east of Lake Victoria, lies an archaeological site where ...

This artifact was used for stitching hides. Stone Age technology included delicate sewing needles made of bone with punched eyeholes. They were probably used in tandem with thread fashioned from ...