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Sep. 20, 2022 Archaeologists and primatologists have shown that stone tool using chimpanzees in West Africa have distinct and recognizable material ...
Mar. 10, 2023 Researchers have discovered artefacts produced by old world monkeys in Thailand that resemble stone tools, which historically have been identified as intentionally made by early hominins. Until now, ...
Aug. 16, 2022 A new study into the multipurpose uses of boomerangs has highlighted the hardwood objects were used to shape the edges of stone tools used by Australian Indigenous communities. The research ...
Feb. 7, 2024 A new study illuminates the cultural evolution that took place approximately 50,000 to 40,000 years ago, coinciding with the dispersals of Homo sapiens across Eurasia. The insights gleaned from their ...
May 4, 2023 Stone tools recovered from near the Senegalese coast extend occupation of the region back to 150 thousand years ago and are comparable to those seen across Africa at this time, but uniquely persist ...
Dec. 1, 2023 Research suggests that Paleolithic humans in the Middle East selected flint for their cutting tools based on differences in the mechanical properties of the rock. They seem to have purposefully ...
Dec. 7, 2022 A new study analyzing stone tools from southern China provides the earliest evidence of rice harvesting, dating to as early as 10,000 years ago. The researchers identified two methods of harvesting ...
Sep. 21, 2021 A study on stone tools from an outpost of the Roman Empire has found that for ancient bakers and millers, having the right tools was a matter of ...
Aug. 9, 2023 A new DNA study has nuanced the picture of how different groups intermingled during the European Stone Age, but also how certain groups of people were actually isolated. Researchers produced new ...
June 3, 2021 In the Stone Age, some 8,000 years ago, people danced often and in a psychedelic way. This is a conclusion drawn from elk teeth discovered in the Yuzhniy Oleniy Ostrov burial site in the Republic of ...