Old beliefs about early human behavior in East Asia are being challenged by the discovery of a richly-layered archaeological ...

Learn how two wooden tools discovered in Greece mark the earliest known evidence of humans shaping wood, moving the timeline ...

Used by our early human ancestors around 430,000 years ago, the earliest known hand-held wooden tools have been uncovered by ...

Archaeologists have uncovered the earliest known hand-held wooden tools ever used by humans, and the discovery is changing what we know about early technology. Found at the Marathousa 1 site in ...

An archaeological discovery of two artifacts in southern Greece are the oldest known handheld wooden tools fashioned by early human ancestors.

Archaeologists working in southern Greece have identified wooden tools that appear to be the oldest of their kind ever found.

Finds from Greece and Britain suggest early hominins were shaping wood and bone with far more intention and ingenuity than ...

Stone tools from central China dated to 160,000 years ago show early hafting, planning and skill, reshaping views of East ...

It's easy to take for granted that with the flick of a lighter or the turn of a furnace knob, modern humans can conjure flames — cooking food, lighting candles or warming homes. For much of our ...

The world's oldest wooden tools – likely dating back 430,000 years and possibly used by Neanderthals or early human ancestors ...

Niguss Gitaw Baraki receives funding from the Leakey Foundation and the U.S. National Science Foundation. Dan V. Palcu Rolier's work was supported by NWO Veni grant 212.136, FAPESP grants 2018/20733-6 ...