The recovery of distinctive fluted points from both America and Arabia provides one of the best examples of ‘independent invention’
A study, published on Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences, deals with the possible uses of basalt tools at the Olduvai Gorge sites in Tanzania
Neanderthals living in Europe from about 55 to 40 thousand years ago traveled away from their caves to collect resin from pine trees. They then used that sticky substance to glue stone tools to handles made out of wood or bone
A new archaeological site in Ethiopia shows that the origins of stone tool production are older than 2.58 million years ago
A new Tel Aviv University study finds that prehistoric humans “recycled” discarded or broken flint tools 400,000 years ago to create small, sharp utensils with specific functions
Anatomically modern humans at the Klasies River Cave, in South Africa’s southern Cape, were roasting and eating plant starch
The first humans who settled in Scandinavia more than 10,000 years ago left their DNA behind in ancient chewing gums, which are masticated lumps made from birch bark pitch
The remains of a new species of human has been uncovered in the Philippines: the species, Homo luzonensis, is named after Luzon Island
Anthropologists have long made the case that tool-making is one of the key behaviors that separated our human ancestors from other primates
