A prehistoric stone hand ax discovered in Sainte-Gabelle, Haute-Garonne, France. From the collection of Charles Fouque, currently seen at the Museum of Toulouse. Courtesy of Didier Descouens/Wikimedia ...

Archaeologists have discovered dozens of primitive tools fashioned by direct human ancestors in Kenya and Ethiopia 1.75 million years ago. The Acheulean age of toolmaking, noted for its thinner, more ...

A new work published in the journal Quaternary Science Reviews, led by the Centro Nacional de Investigación sobre la Evolución Humana (CENIEH) in collaboration with the Centre National de Recherches ...

Our human ancestors may have been sophisticated tool users 1.76 million years ago. Newly discovered hand axes from that period are the oldest examples of the complex Acheulean culture, 350,000 years ...

Even our earliest human ancestors made and used technology — something we can look back on thanks to the lasting nature of stone tools. An exceptionally high density of giant hand axes dated to ...

Beginning more than 1.5 million years ago, early humans made stone hand axes in a style known as the Acheulean—the longest lasting tool-making tradition in prehistory. New research led by the Max ...

The Wenquan Paleolithic site in Ruzhou, Central China's Henan Province, has yielded a collection of Acheulean tools, including hand axes, thin-edged axes, and large stone knives. This marks the first ...

A team of paleontologist recently discovered a set of stone axes that are believed to be the oldest complex tools ever found. At 1.76 million years old, they are some of the oldest examples of ...

Stone handaxes in the Saudi Arabian desert indicate that an ancient style of tool making belonging to our hominin ancestors continued till as recently as 190,000 years ago. Monica Hoyos Flight Stone ...

Stone tools linked to ancient human ancestors in Arabia have surprisingly recent date Stone handaxes, similar to those made by early humans as much as 1.5 million years ago, have been dated for the ...