Ancient wooden tools found at a site in Gantangqing in southwestern China are approximately 300,000 years old, new dating has shown. Discovered during excavations carried out in 2014–15 and 2018–19, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Archaeologist Laura Dietrich studies a replica Stone Age axe in Germany. While not from the Latvian site, such replicas reveal how ...

Professor, Environmental Futures Research Centre, School of Science, University of Wollongong The excavation, curation, and research of the Gantangqing site were supported by National Cultural ...

This photo provided by the Homa Peninsula Paleoanthropology Project in August 2025, shows Oldowan stone tools made from a variety of raw materials sourced more than 6 miles away from where they were ...

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 ...

New research shows stone tool production in the Central African rainforest remained remarkably consistent for a period of more than 5,000 years. While the results suggest considerable similarity ...

WASHINGTON – Early human ancestors during the Old Stone Age were more picky about the rocks they used for making tools than previously known, according to research published Friday. Not only did these ...