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

In the shadow of a coal mine in southern Greece, archaeologists discovered the oldest known handheld wooden tools ever found.

Discovered in southern England in the mid-1990s, the artifact may have been made by Neanderthals or Homo heidelbergensis, according to a new study ...

Excavations at an opencast mine in Greece have uncovered two wooden objects more than 400,000 years old that appear to have been fashioned as tools by an unknown species of ancient human ...

Archaeologists uncover a 500,000-year-old elephant bone tool in Europe, offering rare insight into early human innovation.

Homo heidelbergensis lived hundreds of thousands of years ago during a critical phase of human evolution. Fossil evidence ...

A roughly 500,000-year-old elephant bone hammer has been discovered in Boxgrove, England. This find ...

A remarkable prehistoric hammer made from elephant bone, dating back nearly half a million years ago, has been uncovered in southern England and analyzed by archaeologists from UCL and the Natural ...

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

“Collecting and shaping an elephant bone fragment and then using it on multiple occasions to shape and sharpen stone tools ...

Early hominins in Europe were creating tools from raw materials hundreds of thousands of years before Homo sapiens arrived ...

Found in southern Greece, the stick was one of two wooden artifacts that appear to have been shaped intentionally, according ...