No two tools in the 2,000-year-old kit were the same, indicating the owner was skilled in precise stonework, according to the study.

“So, we know Polynesian people are phenomenal seafarers and they needed tools to make their canoes and the stone adze is the main tool for that.” This is only the second find of ancient Polynesian ...

In a cave overlooking the ocean on the southern coast of South Africa, archaeologists discovered thousands of stone tools, created by ancient humans roughly 20,000 years ago. By examining tiny ...

And that may change the way scientists think about when ancient humans started using crafted bone instead of stone as tools. The Olduvai Gorge has been a treasure trove of ancient human artefacts ...

Neanderthals could have migrated east and reached what’s now China, or a different species of ancient human possibly made stone tools uncannily similar to those being made in Europe during this ...

A newly discovered cache of 27 carved and sharpened bones from elephants and hippos found in Tanzania’s Olduvai Gorge site pushes back the date for ancient bone tool use by around 1 million years.

Photo by Aurora Pețan In 2022, a villager walking through the forest near the Măgura Călanului limestone quarry in Romania came across an ancient set of tools ... a master mason, Pețan said.