A 500,000-year-old elephant bone tool discovered in southern England is changing the way scientists understand early human technology. The rare artifact was used to repair stone tools and shows that ...

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 ...

Learn how two wooden tools discovered in Greece mark the earliest known evidence of humans shaping wood, moving the timeline back roughly 40,000 years. At the edge of a lake in what is now southern ...

Our prehistoric human ancestors relied on deliberately modified and sharpened stone tools as early as 3.3 million years ago. The selection of rock type depended on how easily the material could be ...