Swathes of Britain had already been conquered – Roman camps, forts and roads had sprung up in lands once dominated by tribes of Celts ... while armed with simple tools: sturdy hiking boots ...

The Hallstatt culture was the first culture of peoples that can truly be considered “Celtic.” This period was preceded by the ...

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

But how did the production of stone tools—called "knapping"—start? "I don't think it was a 'Eureka!' moment whereby hominins ...

Stone tools are considered the first form of technology devised by ancient humans – but they might not have been invented ...

According to a report by The Baltimore Banner, a team of volunteers and archaeologists from the Maryland Historical Trust ...

The newly discovered bone tools, which consist of 27 deliberately split and chipped large mammal long bones, were recovered ...

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 ...

The ancestors of humans started making tools about 3.3 million years ago. First they made them out of stone, then they switched to bone as a raw material. Until recently, the earliest clear ...

Archaeologists have discovered a collection of prehistoric animal bones in Tanzania that suggests early humans figured out how to transfer tool-making techniques “from stone to bone” 1.5 ...