The finding, along with the discovery of a 500,000-year-old hammer made of bone, indicates that our human ancestors were making tools even earlier than archaeologists thought.

In 1958, an amateur archaeologist named John Cowles excavated the Cougar Mountain Cave in Oregon and retained many of the ...

Archaeologists working in southern Greece have identified wooden tools that appear to be the oldest of their kind ever found.

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

The "very rare" find provides an extraordinary glimpse into the ingenuity of early human relatives who lived around half a million years ago.

Located in Malawi, the site could also be the world's earliest example of an in situ cremation pyre for an adult, according ...

Archaeologists uncovered what they believe are the oldest wooden tools ever discovered — dating back hundreds of thousands of ...

A STONE Age stick wielded by humans 430,000 years ago may be the oldest wooden tool ever discovered. Two time-travelling ...

The findings represent the oldest complete set of genetic information from this bacterial group and shed light on its evolutionary history ...

In the shadow of a coal mine in southern Greece, archaeologists discovered the oldest known handheld wooden tools ever found.

The oldest Stone Age cremation, carried out 9,500 years ago in a remote rock shelter, has been found in Africa.

Once overlooked, Morocco has emerged as a focal point of human prehistory, with new discoveries and a landmark report ...