Stone tools are considered the first form of technology devised by ancient humans – but they might not have been invented ...

which is known as the age of the hand axes — tear-shaped tools with a sharp point made from stone. "Now, we have a human ...

The newly discovered bone tools, which consist of 27 deliberately split and chipped large mammal long bones, were recovered ...

Members of the genus Australopithecus — which includes the famed fossil Lucy — were making stone tools at least 2.6 million years ago. Bone tools appear only much later in the human story ...

But those experts may have a surprising new answer thanks to new research that shows the ancient people of the ... the archaeological record. These stone tools offer a new way in.

Around 3.3 million years ago, hominins began using flakes of stone ... into tools. Dr. de la Torre said it was likely that other troves of bone tools await archaeologists at other ancient sites ...

Researchers know that early people made simple tools from stones as early as 3.3 million years ago. The new discovery, published Wednesday in Nature, reveals that ancient humans “had rather more ...

Stone tools from this period are thought to have been created by Homo erectus, an extinct species that resembled modern humans, who lived 1.89 million to 110,000 years ago. The team began ...