A new study asks what drove prehistoric humans to collect and recycle flint tools that had been made, used, and discarded by their predecessors. After examining flint tools from one layer at the ...

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Olduvai Gorge in northern Tanzania boasts sediment layers dating back to about 1.8 million years ago. Those layers contain simple stone tools that marked one of the earliest recorded technological ...

(Reuters) -Artifacts found at archeological sites in France and Spain along the Bay of Biscay shoreline show that humans have been crafting tools from whale bones since more than 20,000 years ago, ...

The oldest collection of mass-produced prehistoric bone tools reveal that human ancestors were likely capable of more advanced abstract reasoning one million years earlier than thought, finds a new ...

WASHINGTON, Feb 9 (Reuters) - Scientists have a mystery on their hands after the discovery of 330 stone tools about 2.9 million years old at a site in Kenya, along Lake Victoria's shores, that were ...

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prehistoric human beings collected and recycled old tools, possibly to ...

Some 30,000 years ago, humans sailed 140 miles from Taiwan to Japan’s southern Yonaguni Island, navigating the Pacific Ocean’s powerful Kuroshio currents. But how exactly did they manage to complete ...

If someone hands you a large, spiral seashell, chances are that your instinct will drive you to hold it up to your ear. Thousands of years ago, however, prehistoric communities in modern-day Spain ...

Artifacts are from archeological sites in France and Spain The tools were mainly for hunting, like projectile points Tools were made from bones of at least five whale species May 28 (Reuters) - ...