Early humans were regularly using animal bones to make cutting tools 1.5 million years ago. A newly discovered cache of 27 ...

This piece reminds me of how advanced we have become since the early days of mankind when flint provided a means to survive. I have often found flint tools/scrapers in the fields surrounding my ...

A nine-year-old boy named Ben Witten was recently visiting Worthing Museum in southern England when he spotted something familiar sitting in a Stone Age exhibit: a prehistoric hand ax that looked ...

Egberts collected over 850 artifacts, ranging from very old hand axes from the Early or Old ... to teach local elementary school children about prehistoric flint discoveries." ...

Now, researchers have uncovered a substantial cache of prehistoric bone tools in the same region dating back 1.5 million years. It's the oldest collection of mass-produced bone tools yet known, ...

Olorgesailie is a trove of in situ prehistoric materials, including hand axes, armor stones, flakes, and bones from extinct species of hippopotamus and elephant, deposited more than a million ...

The prehistoric period ended when the Romans ... In the early Stone Age, people made simple hand-axes out of stones. They made hammers from bones or antlers and they sharpened sticks to use ...