Our prehistoric human ancestors relied on deliberately modified and sharpened stone tools as early as 3.3 million years ago.

Researchers identified early handled tools that archeologists previously thought were not created in East Asia until ...

"Researchers have argued for decades that while hominins in Africa and western Europe demonstrated significant technological ...

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

A newly excavated archaeological site in central China is reshaping long-held assumptions about early hominin behavior in ...

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

Learn how archaeologists dated stone tools from central China and what they reveal about when early humans in Asia began using complex tools.

Learn about a 500,000-year old hammer made from elephant bone, used by early humans in England to sharpen stone tools.