Learn about the 430,000-year-old stone tools and techniques that allowed ancient humans to butcher elephant meat for a hefty ...

The science of cutting has played a pivotal role in shaping human civilization, from the earliest stone tools used by prehistoric hominids to the cutting-edge CNC machines used in modern manufacturing ...

Lucy’s kind had fingers short enough to manipulate stone tools and a humanlike ribcage that would have accommodated a digestive tract capable of processing large amounts of meat (SN: 7/17/10, p. 5).

Until now, the oldest evidence for the manufacture of stone tools comes from finds in Gona, Ethiopia that are just 2.6 million years old, while the oldest cut-marked bones were found in nearby ...