A new study has shown that as early as the Stone Age, people in Africa traveled long distances to procure colorful stone, the ...

Carved flints like this made up the majority of man-made tools during the middle Stone Age, also known as the Mesolithic period. "Flint is shaped into tools by hammers of pebble and antler and the ...

Stone Age humans flocked to latest models of flint tools – and worshipped where they came from Ancient humans developed more streamlined ‘Quina’ scrapers to hunt and butcher smaller prey ...

These scientists built their own Stone Age tools to figure out how they were used Telltale fractures and microscopic wear marks should be applicable to real artifacts.

A young girl in Norway made a remarkable discovery while playing outside near her school — a 3,700-year-old flint dagger crafted by humans during the Stone Age.

The researchers believe that Neanderthals, an extinct species of human known to have lived in that area as far back as ...

An archaeologist explores the importance of flint to Stone Age man. A modern day worker makes a replica of a Stone Age arrow, showing us how skilled Stone Age people were in their use of flint.

Over five millennia ago, Stone Age people in Central Europe crafted wooden handles for their stone tools.

Pictured are the remains of a Neolithic ceremonial site in Hammar, Sweden. Numerous artifacts, including intact ceramic vessels and large quantities of flint tools, have been found at the site ...

Archaeologists have known that early humans started using stone tools called scrapers to process hides and scrape the flesh off bones about 1.5 million years ago. But these tools were mostly used ...