Archaeologists have found the oldest known evidence of hafted tools in East Asia, and they challenge a previously held assumption about stone tool use.

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Old beliefs about early human behavior in East Asia are being challenged by the discovery of a richly-layered archaeological ...

Camera trap footage of a white-faced capuchin monkey from Isla Jicarón, Coiba National Park, Panama. Some groups of capuchins in the park have begun using stone tools, which may give insight into how ...

When Japanese scientists wanted to learn more about how ground stone tools dating back to the Early Upper Paleolithic might have been used, they decided to build their own replicas of adzes, axes, and ...

Early humans in England used elephant bone to sharpen stone tools, revealing advanced planning, material knowledge, and ...

The oldest known stone tools date to around 3.3 million years ago, predating the emergence of the genus Homo. These tools ...

Starch trapped in ancient tools points to long-term cultivation of the Four Corners potato by Indigenous people of the ...

Oldowan stone tools made from a variety of raw materials sourced more than six miles away from where they were found in southwestern Kenya. In southwestern Kenya more than 2.6 million years ago, ...

Team says discovery of 2,600 stone tools, including hafted tools, reshapes understanding of human evolution in eastern Asia ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) At first glance, it might seem impossible to decipher. But as an experimental ...