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 ...

Among the more than 850 artifacts were Lower or Upper Paleolithic hand axes and Levallois reduction flakes, which are stone ...

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 ...

Scientists Used Prehistoric Tools to Build a Canoe, Then Paddled Across 140 Miles from Taiwan to Japan Researchers and expert ...

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 ...