The "very rare" find provides an extraordinary glimpse into the ingenuity of early human relatives who lived around half a ...

Long before the North Sea existed, a vast landscape of rivers, forests, and plains connected Britain to continental Europe. Drawing on archaeology, geology, and climate science, this documentary ...

Archaeologists have found the oldest known evidence of hafted tools in East Asia, and they challenge a previously held ...

The finding, along with the discovery of a 500,000-year-old hammer made of bone, indicates that our human ancestors were ...

Experts believe the bog in which they were found may have held keen religious importance for the Celtic people, serving as a ...

It represents the largest known whetstone discovery of the period in north west Europe ...

Archaeologists found a 300 ton shipwreck that is the largest vessel of its kind ever found in the Baltic region.

Finds from Greece and Britain suggest early hominins were shaping wood and bone with far more intention and ingenuity than ...

A remarkable prehistoric hammer made from elephant bone, dating back nearly half a million years ago, has been uncovered in ...

A fragment of elephant bone used to sharpen stone axes nearly half a million years ago has been identified as the oldest ...

Used by our early human ancestors around 430,000 years ago, the earliest known hand-held wooden tools have been uncovered by ...