A remarkable prehistoric hammer made from elephant bone, dating back nearly half a million years ago, has been uncovered in southern England and analyzed by archaeologists from UCL and the Natural ...

A study of bird flock movement revealed that travelling en masse is less efficient than flying solo. Over six years, a team led by James Klarevas-Irby from the Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior, ...

Years ago, archaeologists found a 35,000-year-old ivory artifact in a cave in Germany. Now, a study identified it as tool for weaving thicker ropes. Photo from H. Jensen and University of Tübingen via ...

Discovery of complex pre-historic tools in China suggests our ancestors were far more advanced than thought - Find suggests prehistoric humans showed complex planning and understanding of how to enhan ...

Neanderthals were gluing handles onto their tools over 100,000 years ago, possibly making the species even smarter than previously thought. So says a new study that discovered the use of adhesives on ...

More than two dozen prehistoric tools and weapons found on an undeveloped plot in Pitkin County could provide archaeologists information about hunter-gatherer toolmaking in the West. The find, on ...

Artifacts are from archeological sites in France and Spain The tools were mainly for hunting, like projectile points Tools were made from bones of at least five whale species May 28 (Reuters) - ...

Archaeologists have unlocked the secrets of a “remarkable” 500,000-year-old elephant bone hammer which they say is the oldest of its kind in Europe. The 11-centimetre-long fragment was first uncovered ...

Some 30,000 years ago, humans sailed 140 miles from Taiwan to Japan’s southern Yonaguni Island, navigating the Pacific Ocean’s powerful Kuroshio currents. But how exactly did they manage to complete ...

A closeup of the elephant bone tool’s striking surface, showing the marks of it being struck against flint tools. A remarkable prehistoric hammer made from elephant bone, dating back nearly half a ...