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 ...

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.

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 ...

JAISALMER: Retired archaeologist of ASI’s Bhopal Circle Dr Narayan Vyas has found stone age-era tools and weapons, indicating a human settlement lakhs of years ago, in the hills adjoining Kak ...

A modern day worker makes a replica of a Stone Age arrow, ... There was, at that time, no knowledge of metal or metal-working so survival depended on making these tools and weapons.

Archaeologists in Hyderabad have recently found rare stone tools, belonging to the neolithic age, with the findings indicating that the city's history goes back to about 6,000 years.. The ...

Researchers from Tokyo Metropolitan University crafted replica Stone Age tools and used them for a range of tasks to see how different activities create traces on the edge. They found that a ...

Science isn’t always test tubes and beakers. Sometimes, you have to smash fake skulls with an ax. A team of Spanish scientists used that very technique to try and answer a 7,000 year old mystery ...