The ability to make a Lower Paleolithic hand axe depends on complex cognitive control by the prefrontal cortex, including the 'central executive' function of working memory, a new study finds. The ...

Why Stone Age man took two million years to evolve the brain power needed to make axes. By DAILY MAIL REPORTER Updated: 08:02 EDT, 5 November 2010 ...

The successfully re-enacted voyage suggests that early modern humans likely had a high level of strategic seafaring knowledge ...

A team of researchers are going to monitor modern subjects as they learn how to make Stone Age-style hand axes to see if there's a link to how we process language.

What's a Stone Age axe doing in an Iron Age tomb? Archaeologists are now researching older objects in younger graves and they have found a pattern. "If one finds something once, it's accidental ...

The Stone Age may not have been "The Flintstones," but there were definitely caveman qualities to it. There were absolutely no modern conveniences — like electricity, written words, modern ...

Experiments with replicas of Early Upper Paleolithic edge-ground stone axes and adzes provide criteria for identifying tool functions. Article Publication Date. 3-Jan-2024.

In the forests of eastern Taiwan, a team of scientists set out to answer a question that has puzzled archaeologists for ...

Researchers from Tokyo Metropolitan University crafted replica Stone Age tools and used them for a range of tasks to see how different activities create traces on the edge. They found that a ...

The stone axe measured 15.5cm in length, 11cm in width and 5.5cm in thickness was found.” This tool was bi-facial and double convex hand-axe of the Paleolithic age and used by the ancients as a ...

The ability to make a Lower Paleolithic hand axe depends on complex cognitive control by the prefrontal cortex, including the "central executive" function of working memory, a new study finds. PLoS ...