Two unassuming pieces of wood recovered from a prehistoric lakeshore in southern Greece have become a headline-grabbing rarity - the oldest known handheld wooden tools, dated to around 430,000 years ...

Two artifacts found at a lake shore in Greece are the oldest wooden tools to be uncovered so far and date back 430,000 years.

New findings from NASA's Perseverance rover have revealed evidence of wave-formed beaches and rocks altered by subsurface ...

Ancient tools from central China are flipping the script, revealing early humans were far more innovative than history once gave them credit for.

A newly excavated archaeological site in central China is reshaping long-held assumptions about early hominin behavior in ...

While Thrinaxodon liorhinus didn’t yet have the sophisticated hearing equipment of modern mammals, it shows that eardrums ...

Scientists discovered exceptionally preserved Ediacaran fossils in sandstone, revealing how soft-bodied organisms survived ...

Archaeologists have discovered an 8ft-long iron spear dating back to 3,345 BCE. It is the longest Iron Age weapon discovered ...

The length and design of the spear suggest it may have been a customised ceremonial piece, possibly reflecting the social status of the person buried in the urn| India News ...

Finds from Greece and Britain suggest early hominins were shaping wood and bone with far more intention and ingenuity than ...

Wood's perishability has long obscured early toolkits, with prior records like Germany's 300,000-year-old Schöningen spears ...