axes, and swords made of bronze or iron during their respective ages. Among the most interesting discoveries of the Paleolithic Age, though, are the tools and weapons made from stone, which is why ...

Thus, Buddha appeared in bronzes from India, Pakistan, China, Thailand and Japan, representing various periods and regional ...

A US team of researchers has uncovered 27 bone tools made by human ancestors ... able to spot the slight markings on stone which designate it as a hand axe or other tool don't usually look at ...

Archaeologists in China’s Yunnan province unearthed stone tools crafted in a style associated with Neanderthals that hasn’t ...

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

Around 3.3 million years ago, hominins began using flakes of stone, perhaps to cut flesh from carcasses or chop plants. And by 1.5 million years ago, they were using more sophisticated tools made ...

Before hominins intentionally chipped stone to make tools, they likely used sharp rocks already shaped by natural forces.

Archaeologists Nicholas Toth and Kathy Schick, both at Indiana University, began working with Kanzi in 1990 to teach him and his sister Panbanisha how to make stone tools by using one rock as a ...

Several other bone tools resemble pear-shaped stone hand axes. Archaeologists consider stone hand axes the main innovation of the Acheulean industry, a tool tradition that emerged roughly 1.7 ...

Archaeologists have thought that ancient people in East Asia completely skipped the Middle Paleolithic. Our discovery challenges the long-standing notion that while ancient people in Europe and Africa ...

The tools, crafted using Quina method – a technique used by Neanderthals – have been found an archaeological site in ...