Approximately 3.3 million years ago someone began chipping away at a rock by the side of a river. Eventually, this chipping formed the rock into a tool used, perhaps, to prepare meat or crack nuts.

A new study from SapienCE reveals that early modern humans at Blombos Cave in South Africa used ochre as a specialized tool ...

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.

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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.

An archaeological dig at a site earmarked for housing has uncovered more than 300 stone age tools and artefacts. The 9,000-year-old site, on Castle Hill, Rhuddlan, Denbighshire, is "on a par with ...

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 ...

Approximately 3.3 million years ago someone began chipping away at a rock by the side of a river. Eventually, this chipping formed the rock into a tool used, perhaps, to prepare meat or crack nuts.

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.