When Japanese scientists wanted to learn more about how ground stone tools dating back to the Early Upper Paleolithic might have been used, they decided to build their own replicas of adzes, axes, and ...

Archaeologists have found the oldest known evidence of hafted tools in East Asia, and they challenge a previously held ...

Monkeys in modern-day Thai forests create stone artifacts uncannily similar to those crafted by early humans — challenging the established narrative of human cultural evolution. A new study published ...

Learn how archaeologists dated stone tools from central China and what they reveal about when early humans in Asia began ...

Fort McCoy has archaeological sites within its boundaries that represent more than 10,000 years of history. Most of the artifacts from those sites which pre-date European contact are either stone ...

Archaeologists with the Colorado State University (CSU) Center for Environmental Management of Military Lands (CEMML) were investigating an archaeological site near the North Flowage when they ...

Nearly 3 million years ago, hominids employed stone tool kits to butcher hippos and pound plants along what’s now the shores of Kenya’s Lake Victoria, researchers say. Evidence of those food ...

Underwater archaeologists have been studying 9,000-year-old stone tool artifacts discovered in Lake Huron that originated from an obsidian quarry more than 2,000 miles away in central Oregon. The ...

Scanning the desert landscape of southern Egypt, archaeologists kept their eyes peeled for any rocks that looked shaped, chipped or tampered with in some way. They were searching for traces of ...