Have you ever found yourself in a museum's gallery of human origins, staring at a glass case full of rocks labeled "stone tools," muttering under your breath, "How do they know it's not just any old ...

Sharp stone technology chipped over three million years allowed early humans to exploit animal and plant food resources, ...

Archaeologists in Ethiopia have uncovered skull fragments and tools belonging to Homo erectus, one of the most successful hominins to have ever lived. Importantly, the newly discovered stone tools ...

Many animals use natural objects, sometimes with some modification, as tools to obtain food. Examples include New Caledonian crows who cut twigs and leaves to produce a variety of tool forms and ...

The increase in the productivity of stone tool cutting-edge (shown in white lines) did not occur before or at the beginning of Homo sapiens’ wide dispersals in Eurasia but subsequently occurred after ...

Micah Springut is no Michelangelo, but as the founder and CEO of Monumental Labs, his proptech company is using artificial intelligence-driven robotics to sculpt the future of stone structures in real ...

Sharp stone technology chipped over three million years allowed early humans to exploit animal and plant food resources. But how did the production of stone tools -- called 'knapping' -- start?