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

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

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

Camera trap footage of a white-faced capuchin monkey from Isla Jicarón, Coiba National Park, Panama. Some groups of capuchins in the park have begun using stone tools, which may give insight into how ...

A joint team of archaeologists, chronologists, geologists, and paleontologists have successfully dated a hoard of wooden tools recovered nearly a decade ago, Ancient Origins reported. The ancient ...

While the scientific fields of planetary geology and archaeology don’t initially seem like a natural pairing, their unique methodological and technological overlap provides scientists with a better ...

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

Outcome of a session held at the 2008 meeting of the Society for American Archaeology (SAA) in Vancouver, British Columbia. Introduction: new directions for the digital past / Eric C. Kansa -- A Web ...

Two unassuming pieces of wood recovered from a prehistoric lakeshore in southern Greece have become a headline-grabbing rarity - the oldest known handheld wooden tools, dated to around 430,000 years ...