If these kinds of traces were indeed found on genuine Stone Age tools, it would be evidence that humans had been working with wood and honing techniques significantly earlier than previously believed.

The science of cutting has played a pivotal role in shaping human civilization, from the earliest stone tools used by ...

The tools date back to around 2.9 million years ... explained anthropologist Kathy Schick of the Stone Age Institute in Indiana, who wasn’t involved in the research. With the rocks and flakes ...

leading researchers to question which human ancestor first developed stone-age tools. Excavations at the Lake Victoria-adjacent dig site in Kenya. The excavation site, located on the Homa ...

Tokyo, Japan – 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.

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Megastructures from the European Stone Age are incredibly rare. Long before agriculture, cities, or authoritative kings, ...

to re-create and hunt with the tools of our Stone Age ancestors. Today, as the owner of Hunt Primitive, Gill spends most of his waking hours building self bows and atlatls and crafting wooden ...

This means the archaeological record of human tool use is deeply skewed towards the much hardier stone ... with the first stone tools and the dawn of the Stone Age over 3 million years ago.

Stone tools unearthed in southwest China helped a ... what’s known about human origins during this period of the Stone Age, according to new research. Archaeologists excavating the Longtan ...

The tools date back to around 2.9 million years ago ... explained anthropologist Kathy Schick of the Stone Age Institute in Indiana, who wasn't involved in the research. With the rocks and flakes, ...