Long before there were maps or names for continents, a handful of people stood at the edge of the world. Picture them on a frozen shoreline in what’s now Japan or Russia, staring east across the gray ...

Stone tools found in some of the earliest settlements in the Americas are challenging the prevailing theory of when the first migrations to the region happened. These tools, probably used as spear ...

ABC News Baltimore reports that Maryland State Terrestrial Archaeologist Zachary Singer and State Geologist Rebecca Kavage Adams are investigating stone tools made and used by Clovis hunters some ...

Imagine early humans meticulously crafting stone tools for nearly 300,000 years, all while contending with recurring wildfires, droughts, and dramatic environmental shifts. A study published in Nature ...

Tucked under London’s Palace of Westminster— one of the most famous structures in the city and home to the Houses of ...

At a site in Kenya, archaeologists recently unearthed layer upon layer of stone stools from deposits that span 300,000 years, and include a period of intense environmental upheaval. The oldest tools ...

About 170 years ago, a large bundle of stone tools was deliberately buried close to a waterhole in the remote Australian ...