Researchers from University College London's Institute of Archaeology have uncovered a cache of 800 stone artefacts dating to more than 300,000 years ago. The find includes one of the largest ...

Archaeologists have discovered a giant hand ax that is thought to be more than 200,000 years old. An international team of research researchers uncovered the prehistoric stone artifact during an ...

Iraq has a rich historical legacy, but it often goes unnoticed due to conflicts. Archaeologists have found a large collection of ancient stone tools in Iraq. In total, they found over 850 objects in ...

(PhysOrg.com) -- A giant African lake basin is providing information about possible migration routes and hunting practices of early humans in the Middle and Late Stone Age periods, between 150,000 and ...

A team of researchers claims to have found evidence of prehistoric human settlement in Karnataka's Vijayanagara district, ...

A famous 15th-century painting was hiding a prehistoric secret in plain sight, researchers from Dartmouth University and the University of Cambridge have recently discovered. Their study revealed that ...

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Hand axes are fairly common finds at sites dating between 2 million and 1 million years old. These sturdy tools have two sides (also called faces) and a sharp edge at one end. But hand axes are ...

A team of researchers from Japan, Hong Kong and Ethiopia has found a hand ax that they believe was made by a possibly direct human ancestor in what is now modern Ethiopia. In their paper published in ...

The discovery suggests an earlier start to the Middle Stone Age in Africa than previously documented. It also offers clues to early social... Scientists Are Amazed By Stone Age Tools They Dug Up In ...