The Neolithic period began in southwest Asia around 12,000 years ago. It marked a major shift in human history as societies ...

Ancient DNA reveals that Stone Age Europeans voyaged by sea to Africa, providing the earliest proof of prehistoric ...

To me, Hōkūleʻa represents so much. She stands for the brilliance of our kūpuna. The genius of being able to travel the way that they did for so many years without instruments, just using ...

At a rock art site located on the western bank of the Nile River, an ancient Egyptian petroglyph depicting a […] ...

Early humans were regularly using animal bones to make cutting tools 1.5 million years ago. A newly discovered cache of 27 carved and sharpened bones from elephants and hippos ...

Dr. de la Torre said it was likely that other troves of bone tools await archaeologists at other ancient sites in Africa. “It may be the case that we archaeologists have not looked hard enough ...

Over a million years ago, ancient human ancestors sat down to shave flakes off bones, producing a tool with a carefully created sharp edge. According to Jackson Njau, an archaeologist at ...

A newly discovered cache of 27 carved and sharpened bones from elephants and hippos found in Tanzania’s Olduvai Gorge site pushes back the date for ancient bone tool use by around 1 million years.