(Reuters) -Artifacts found at archeological sites in France and Spain along the Bay of Biscay shoreline show that humans have been crafting tools from whale bones since more than 20,000 years ago, ...

More than 30,000 years ago, seafaring humans made a momentous trek from present-day Taiwan to the Ryukyu Islands of southwestern Japan—a journey of some 140 miles without any of the advanced ...

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 ...

In a cave overlooking the ocean on the southern coast of South Africa, archaeologists discovered thousands of stone tools, created by ancient humans roughly 20,000 years ago. By examining tiny details ...

Marta Mirazón Lahr is in the Department of Archaeology, Leverhulme Centre for Human Evolutionary Studies, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB2 1QH, UK. De la Torre and colleagues’ discovery ...

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In this week's roundup of science news, Emily Kwong and Rachel Carlson talk about a newly discovered desert flower, tasting lemonade in virtual reality and prehistoric bone tools used by early humans.

Buried for 300,000 years, hundreds of prehistoric tools have been uncovered in a Kent sinkhole—including hand axes over a foot long. This could be Britain’s oldest evidence of early human ingenuity.

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) - ...