Sharp stone technology chipped over three million years allowed early humans to exploit animal and plant food resources. But how did the production of stone tools -- called 'knapping' -- start?

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

The cuneiform tablets discovered there and in other Hittite sites represent one of the largest groups of texts from the ancient Near East. They include thousands of sources in Hittite, an ...

The mortar, pestle and cutting board in your kitchen are modern versions of manos and metates—ancient cooking implements ...

In the forests and farmland of eastern Poland, Grzegorz Wróbl set out on a mission to find fossils. Instead, he found an ...

Our ancient ancestors were using bone tools at least 1.5 million years ago, roughly a million years earlier than was previously thought, a study published last week in the journal Nature reported. The ...

Tool’s first-ever destination festival took place over the weekend in the Dominican Republic, and it appears that the band was booed at the end of its second show of the fest for not living up to its ...

Tool headlined the festival Friday (March 7) and Saturday (March 8) night, but didn't diversify their setlists much. Four songs made the setlist both nights — "Fear Inoculum," "Rosetta Stoned ...

The Boston Celtics have made a habit of setting offensive records over the past several years. Their 122.2 offensive rating a season ago is the best any team has ever posted over a full season.

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 ...

Known as the Oldowan people, the culture responsible for the bone artifacts was already known for their use of stone tools dating back to 2.5 million years ago. The newly identified bone artifacts ...

Researchers have unearthed stone tools that date back to at least 3.3 million years ago, but before this discovery, the oldest known bone tools were found at European sites believed to be 250,000 ...