Ancient wooden tools found at a site in Gantangqing in southwestern China are approximately 300,000 years old, new dating has shown. Discovered during excavations carried out in 2014–15 and 2018–19, ...

Other primates that fall into the select club of the ‘Stone Age’ are the capuchin monkeys, who have also been using this material to crack nuts for the last 700 to 3,000 years.

Bearded capuchins are in their own "stone age," as they use rocks as tools. ... use a 'hammer' rock dropped on an 'anvil' rock to crush nuts, Almeida-Warren told Live Science. You may like ...

Stone Age humans found new use for fire: making tools Findings in South Africa date to as early as 164,000 years ago and suggest modern human behavior emerged much earlier than thought. By Peter N ...

A Stone Age site in Israel contains the oldest evidence of controlled fire use in Asia or Europe, from around 750,000 years ago, a research team reports.

HAMMER TIME Stone pounding implements such as these, shown from different angles, provide evidence that capuchin monkeys in Brazil have practiced different types of tool use over the last 3,000 years.

Impressions of woven fabric have been found on fired clay from sites in Moravia dating back as far as 28,000 years ago. And ivory artifacts from sites in Germany that may have been used for ...

A kulhad is a biodegradable, disposable clay cup used in India by food vendors to serve hot beverages like chai and some desserts like yogurt. The cups have been excavated from the Indus Valley ...

During the Later Stone Age in what is now Namibia, rock artists imbued so much detail into their engravings of human and animal prints that current-day Indigenous trackers could identify which ...

NEW STONE AGE MOTHER:This is to thank the ancestors at the long barrow for our plentiful harvest. NARRATOR:Heating the clay to a high temperature hardens the pots ready for use.