These 430,000-year-old wooden tools from Greece are a rare find and provide a glimpse at the technical know-how of our early ...

A roughly 500,000-year-old elephant bone hammer has been discovered in Boxgrove, England. This find ...

The earliest hominins in Europe shared their environment with large mammals and elephants were some of the largest animals ...

Discovered during excavations at Boxgrove in West Sussex, the ancient hammer is among the oldest elephant bone tools ever ...

In this photo provided by the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC), researcher Ignacio de la Torre holds a bone tool found in Tanzania's Olduvai Gorge, at the CSIC-Pleistocene Archaeology Lab in ...

A remarkable prehistoric hammer made from elephant bone, dating back nearly half a million years ago, has been uncovered in ...

Scientists believe that recent analysis of a find from the 1970's can offer us insights into the lives of ancient humans.

BARCELONA — Your ancestors were hauling massive whale bones up steep cliffs and dragging them miles inland to their cave homes 20,000 years ago. New research reveals that Stone Age humans were ...

Early humans used animal bones to craft tools — more than a million years earlier than scientists previously thought, according to new research published this week. A group of researchers from the ...

WASHINGTON — Early humans were regularly using animal bones to make cutting tools 1.5 million years ago. A newly discovered cache of 27 carved and sharpened bones from elephants and hippos found ...