“It is really exciting and very moving to be the first person to pick up a stone artifact since its original maker put it down millions of years ago,” says Sonia Harmand, an archaeologist at the ...

Archaeologists uncovered what they believe are the oldest wooden tools ever discovered, dating back hundreds of thousands of years, according to a new study. The tools were found in Greece's ...

This wooden tool, which was likely used to dig through mud, was found near elephant bones. Dimitris Michailidis / © K. Harvati Researchers working along a lake shore ...

The finding, along with the discovery of a 500,000-year-old hammer made of bone, indicates that our human ancestors were making tools even earlier than archaeologists thought. By Franz Lidz Early ...