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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

The Stone Age was a prehistoric period that lasted more than 3 million years, from the point when human ancestors began using stone tools until the time we invented metalworking.. Archaeologists ...

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.

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

Chinese archaeologists have made new discoveries at the ancient sites in Nihewan Basin, North China's Hebei Province, revealing East Asia's first-ever evidence of the "heat-treated stone-tool ...

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 ...