The Stone Age was a long historical period, starting about 2.5 million years ago and ending in 3,000 BC, characterised by ...

However, archaeologists have found lots of stone artifacts with ground edges dating as far back as 60,000 to 30,000 years ago. But it's unclear how those tools might have been used.

More than 80 Stone Age tools have been unearthed at a farm in Dartmoor in the U.K. Experts believe these tools may be 8,000 years old, made by our hunter-gatherer ancestors.

The stone tools could likely be the oldest evidence of Stone Age innovation. By Laura Baisas Published Feb 10, 2023 4:00 PM EST ...

A team of Chinese and Kenyan archeologists has uncovered a Stone Age “production line” that used advanced techniques to produce standardized tools, potentially shedding light on the spread of ...

While black and white chert and green chalcedony were frequently used in the Middle Stone Age in Africa 40,000 to 28,000 years ago, red jasper was particularly popular in the later Stone Age ...

We found some of the tools they left behind—and on close inspection of the tools, we discovered these Stone Age herders were busy grinding animal bones, wild plants and pigments while their meat ...

The first tools made by our early Stone Age ancestors were simple, but monumental. Hammerstones, handaxes, and sharpened flakes were their implements of choice — all carved from rock and used ...

For thousands of years before European contact, Native Americans used stone to create many of the tools that were used in their everyday lives. Not all types of stone are suitable for making tools ...

Archaeologists in Kenya have dug up some of the oldest stone tools ever found, dating back to around 2.9 million years ago, but who used them is a mystery, according to a study published Thursday ...

Archaeologists teamed up with modern hunters to compare how well replicas of two types of prehistoric stone tools could harvest meat from an animal carcass. They used a humanely killed bison bull ...

The Oldowan toolkit includes three types of stone tools: hammerstones, cores and flakes. Hammerstones can be used for hitting other rocks to create tools or for pounding other materials.