Learn more about the colorful and shiny stones that were turned into tools as many as 40,000 years ago, which were sometimes ...

High in the Caucasus Mountains, buried beneath the cold floor of a limestone cave, archaeologists have found something small, sharp, and quietly revolutionary. It is just about 9 centimeters long (3.5 ...

For her, the notion that our Stone Age forebears were artisans serves to humanize them. “Working wood is slow, even if you’re good at it,” she said. “There are lots of different steps in ...

For her, the notion that our Stone Age forebears were artisans serves to humanize them. “Working wood is slow, even if you’re good at it,” she said. “There are lots of different steps in ...

Researchers from Tokyo Metropolitan University crafted replica Stone Age tools and used them for a range of tasks to see how different activities create traces on the edge. They found that a ...