Nov. 19 (UPI) --New analysis of what archaeologists call the "Swiss Army knife of prehistoric tools," originally recovered from a dig site in China, suggests stone tool technology developed ...

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 ...

Sharp stone technology chipped over three million years allowed early humans to exploit animal and plant food resources, ...

Archaeologists in Ethiopia have uncovered skull fragments and tools belonging to Homo erectus, one of the most successful hominins to have ever lived. Importantly, the newly discovered stone tools ...

Charles Darwin, in his Descent of Man (1871), speculated about an evolutionary connection between the development of language and the manufacture of tools. In his insightful essay “The Part Played by ...

Sharp stone technology chipped over three million years allowed early humans to exploit animal and plant food resources, which in turn played a large role in increasing human brain size and ...

Metin I. Eren is a Ph.D. candidate in Anthropology at Southern Methodist University. His areas of expertise include Stone Age archaeology, human evolution and experimental archaeology. He is an expert ...

Micah Springut is no Michelangelo, but as the founder and CEO of Monumental Labs, his proptech company is using artificial intelligence-driven robotics to sculpt the future of stone structures in real ...

Sharp stone technology chipped over three million years allowed early humans to exploit animal and plant food resources. But how did the production of stone tools -- called 'knapping' -- start?