Archaeologists in Israel unearthed prehistoric hand axes that Homo erectus crafted from stones including fossils and crystals ...

Homo erectus may have deliberately selected rocks embedded with fossils and crystals to craft their hand axes — possibly to ...

Recent discoveries have suggested that tool-making, an indicator of intelligence, was practiced by pre-human species millions of years prior to the evolution of Homo sapiens. This revelation has the ...

They report in the journal Nature that two ancient animal bones from Ethiopia show signs of being butchered and smashed by stone tools about 3.4 million years ago. That's about 800,000 years earlier ...