At some point — about 21,000 years ago, but perhaps twice as long ago as that — it occurred to a variety of Stone-Age weapons geniuses that a short and slender spear could be nestled in the hollow of ...

You might think ancient weapons were crude, but they were terrifyingly effective. Stone Age tools were engineered for maximum damage in hunting and combat. The violence of survival back then was ...

Ancient wooden tools found at a site in Gantangqing in southwestern China are approximately 300,000 years old, new dating has ...

Spanish scientists built Stone Age weapons and smashed fake skulls to see what damage they would do. ... started about 10,000 years ago and encompassed the final development of stone tools.

Spanish scientists built Stone Age weapons and smashed fake skulls to see what damage they would do. ... started about 10,000 years ago and encompassed the final development of stone tools.

The 300,000 year-old tools show that hominins in East Asia made planned foraging trips to lakeshores and designed instruments ...

Ancient scavengers of the beached beasts turned their bones into implements that spread across a large area, researchers say.

Once capable of creating stone tools, Stone Age cultures transformed into Bronze Age civilizations by melting and smelting metals, working with copper and then copper alloys, including tin bronzes.

Neanderthals were even better craftsmen than thought, a new analysis of 300,000-year-old wooden tools has revealed. By Franz Lidz In 1836, Christian Jürgensen Thomsen, a Danish antiquarian ...

For her, the notion that our Stone Age forebears were artisans serves to humanize them. “Working wood is slow, even if you’re good at it,” she said. “There are lots of different steps in ...