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The process of creating lithic tools took our hominin species millions of years to perfect. However, we often dismiss stone tools as simplistic primitive technology. The mastering of stone knapping ...

Archaeologists studying the vast Zvejnieki cemetery in Latvia have uncovered surprising truths about Stone Age life. Stone tools, long thought to symbolize male hunters, were actually buried just as ...

Biber Deresi basin. Credit: Göknur Karahan / CC BY 4.0 Archaeologists working near the ancient Greek city of Assos (Greek: Ἄσσος) on Turkey’s Çanakkale coast have uncovered a dense cluster of early ...

Man's ancestors transported stones over long distances to craft tools 2.6 million years ago - 600,000 years earlier than previously thought. Stone tools unearthed in Kenya reveal that hominins ...

Archaeologists have uncovered primitive sharp-edged stone tools on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi, adding another piece to an evolutionary puzzle involving mysterious ancient humans who lived in a ...

In this real-life Minecraft experiment, I attempt to build functional Minecraft-style stone tools! Inspired by the iconic stone axe, pickaxe, and shovel, I set out to create tools with that blocky, ...

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Have you ever found yourself in a museum’s gallery of human origins, staring at a glass case full of rocks labeled “stone tools,” muttering under your breath, “How do they know it’s not just any old ...