Used by our early human ancestors around 430,000 years ago, the earliest known hand-held wooden tools have been uncovered by ...

Archaeologists have found the oldest-known surviving examples of handheld wooden tools.

Archaeologists in central China have uncovered evidence that early humans were far more inventive than long assumed. Excavations at the Xigou site reveal advanced stone tools, including the earliest ...

Our prehistoric human ancestors relied on deliberately modified and sharpened stone tools as early as 3.3 million years ago.

Researchers identified early handled tools that archeologists previously thought were not created in East Asia until ...

Learn how two wooden tools discovered in Greece mark the earliest known evidence of humans shaping wood, moving the timeline ...

The earliest hominins in Europe shared their environment with large mammals and elephants were some of the largest animals ...

An archaeological discovery of two artifacts in southern Greece are the oldest known handheld wooden tools fashioned by early human ancestors.

Ancient tools from central China are flipping the script, revealing early humans were far more innovative than history once gave them credit for.

Old beliefs about early human behavior in East Asia are being challenged by the discovery of a richly-layered archaeological ...

Finds from Greece and Britain suggest early hominins were shaping wood and bone with far more intention and ingenuity than ...

The finding, along with the discovery of a 500,000-year-old hammer made of bone, indicates that our human ancestors were ...