As we ambled along Prairie Park Fishery Lake’s shore an unusual rock caught our eyes. Nestled within hundreds of fist-sized chunks of gray limestone was a sharply angled rock the color of caramel ...

It's a long way from small, sharp shards of rock used in disassembling an African antelope killed by the same hands that made the proto-knives to the trigger of a computerized, laser-sighted, ...

WHEN RYAN GILL was 13, his father gave him a stave—or long stick—from a black locust tree, along with a single wood rasp. By the time his dad got home from work that evening, Gill was standing over a ...

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A recent study published in Nature Communications has found the first-known evidence of human beings manufacturing tools out of whale bones. Throughout 26 rock shelters and caves within northern Spain ...

Ancient hunter-gatherers from Sri Lanka’s western rainforests used a quartz-containing “flexible toolkit” to hunt small mammals, new research shows. The researchers discovered South Asia’s oldest ...