Tools were once thought to have arisen out of Africa and Europe, then spread eastward. New findings challenge that assumption ...

This artifact was used for scraping fur from animal hides. For European and American Stone Age peoples, end scrapers served as heavy- duty scraping tools that could have been used on animal hides ...

During the Middle Paleolithic—a period spanning about 40,000 to 300,000 years ago, also called the Middle Stone Age—groups ...

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

The tool we've identified is called a Quina scraper. This type of stone tool is well known from archaeological sites in ...

A style of primitive stone tools named for the French site where they were first discovered have shown up half a world away.

This is from the dawn of civilisation in Britain when stone tools, some of increadable beauty like a leaf arrowhead or some like this simple utilitarian thumbnail scraper. I found it on a walk ...

along with a bone tool and a stone scraper, Shutler wrote. Hoping to find evidence that mammoths, camels and other Pleistocene (ice age) animals coexisted with humans, Shutler and a team of 21 ...

This artifact was used for scraping fur from animal hides. For European and American Stone Age peoples, end scrapers served as heavy- duty scraping tools that could have been used on animal hides ...

Come to the first human beings in Wales, this cave provided shelter for a group of hunter-gatherers 250,000 years ago. It was when the cave was being used as an ammunition dump during the war that ...