Archaeologists have identified the oldest known example of sewn hide, a small fragment of elk hide meticulously stitched with twisted fiber, dating back approximately 12,400 years. Found within Cougar ...

Archaeologists working in southern Greece have identified wooden tools that appear to be the oldest of their kind ever found.

Located in Malawi, the site could also be the world's earliest example of an in situ cremation pyre for an adult, according to a new study ...

Ancient handprint on Sulawesi cave wall suggests complexity of thought, challenging long-held belief that human intelligence erupted in Europe ...

Archaeologists have found the oldest-known surviving examples of handheld wooden tools.

Humans and our ancestors have been creating tools, art, and everyday objects for millions of years, and each unexpected discovery teaches us something new about the development of our species. Relics ...

Early hominins in Europe were creating tools from raw materials hundreds of thousands of years before Homo sapiens arrived ...

In the shadow of a coal mine in southern Greece, archaeologists discovered the oldest known handheld wooden tools ever found.

Found in southern Greece, the stick was one of two wooden artifacts that appear to have been shaped intentionally, according to a new study ...

Australia's Sydney Water confirmed there is a massive fatberg "the size of four buses" in a difficult-to-reach position under ...

Maxime Aubert receives funding from the Australian Research Council, Google Arts & Culture and The National Geographic Society. Adam Brumm receives funding from the Australian Research Council. Adhi ...

In the last five years, 3 of the 4 oldest cave artworks ever found on Earth were identified on the same small island off Sulawesi, Indonesia ...