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The discovery of stone tools alongside mastodon bones in a Florida river shows that humans settled the southeastern United States as much as 1,500 years earlier than scientists previously believed ...
JAIPUR: After the findings of nearly 2,000-year-old pre-historic paintings, turning the leaves of history, Stone Age tools of middle Paleolithic period were found along the river Rewa, south of Bundi.
A new study from SapienCE reveals that early modern humans at Blombos Cave in South Africa used ochre as a specialized tool ...
But scientists do know that about 1.75 million years ago, African hominids invented a way to make stone tools with two faces such as hand axes by hammering chips off big lumps of rock.
Over two days in 2005, Gibbon’s group identified 465 stone tools brought out of a diamond-mining pit bordering South Africa’s Vaal River, near the town of Windsorton.
With a little guidance and a lot of practice, even you can make stone tools the way our oldest ancestors did – and learn to recognize the signs of a deliberately made tool.
Stone tools unearthed in Ukraine were used by ancient humans 1.4 million years ago, according to new research that dated the tools by analyzing particles inside rock produced by cosmic rays.
Stone tools in Ukraine dated to 1.4 million years ago may be the earliest solid evidence of humans in Europe, a new study reveals. The makers of these tools likely weren't Homo sapiens but a close ...
JAISALMER: Retired archaeologist of ASI’s Bhopal Circle Dr Narayan Vyas has found stone age-era tools and weapons, indicating a human settlement lakhs of years ago, in the hills adjoining Kak ...
A view of ancient stone carvings in the Amazon River that were exposed after water levels dropped to record lows during a drought in Manaus, Amazonas state, Brazil. (Reuters/Suamy Beydoun) ...
Hominins manufacture stone tools by fracturing or abrading rock. Here, I am going to focus on fractured or flaked stone technology because tools made through this technique dominate the ...