A new study asks what drove prehistoric humans to collect and recycle flint tools that had been made, used, and discarded by their predecessors. After examining flint tools from one layer at the ...

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(Reuters) -Artifacts found at archeological sites in France and Spain along the Bay of Biscay shoreline show that humans have been crafting tools from whale bones since more than 20,000 years ago, ...

Scientists have a mystery on their hands after the discovery of 330 stone tools about 2.9 million years old at a site in Kenya, along Lake Victoria's shores, that were used to butcher animals, ...

Archaeologists have unearthed the earliest known multifunctional tool made from cave lion bone, shedding new light on Neanderthal ingenuity. The ancient utensil dates back to the end of the Saalian ...

Complex prehistoric tools unearthed at an archaeological site in central China are upending long-standing assumptions about human evolution, scientists claim in a new study. Excavations at the Xigou ...

Visitors to Stonehenge this summer will have the chance to experience a unique slice of prehistoric life thanks to the reconstruction of a 4,500-year-old building that scholars think once stood nearby ...

The researchers: "Based on our findings we argue that prehistoric humans' practice of recycling old stone tools stemmed from the significance attributed by humans to artifacts produced by their ...

Artifacts are from archeological sites in France and Spain The tools were mainly for hunting, like projectile points Tools were made from bones of at least five whale species May 28 (Reuters) - ...