Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Stone tools are deliberately made by the hands of hominins, like these worked on by the author. John K. Murray Have you ever found ...

Early humans in England used elephant bone to sharpen stone tools, revealing advanced planning, material knowledge, and ...

When monkeys in Thailand use stones as hammers and anvils to help them crack open nuts, they often accidentally create sharp flakes of rock that look like the stone cutting tools made by early humans.

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

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