The ingenious minds at Primitive Technology showcase a meticulous 8-day process of crafting a durable stone axe completely by ...

Dr. Makakmayum Baadshah Tool making and manufacturing are among the earliest and transformative human innovations, catalysing ...

Learn about the 430,000-year-old stone tools and techniques that allowed ancient humans to butcher elephant meat for a hefty ...

I visited Norrhälsinge Blacksmith's guild, spending time with talented blacksmiths. The following day, I took a private tour of Gränsfors Bruk and participated in an axe-making class.

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

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

The exhibit features a unique collection of rare stone tools reflecting the evolution of stone industries through the ages, including hand axes representing the earliest stone tool-making ...

Fossils of Homo sapiens in South Africa date back to between 200,000 and 300,000 years ago, and the Middle Stone Age, during which tool-making was refined, spanned from about 300,000 to 30,000 ...

Life in the Stone Age was pretty tough for our ancestors. There were animals to fend off and track for food, new tools to make, and massive swings in climate to adapt to. Stone Age humans also ...

Some of the resin contains male human DNA, while others have female DNA. We think that teenagers of both sexes were preparing glue for use in tool making, such as attaching a stone axe to a wooden ...

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 ...

Reference: “Experiments with replicas of Early Upper Paleolithic edge-ground stone axes and adzes provide criteria for identifying tool functions” by Akira Iwase, Katsuhiro Sano, Junichi Nagasaki, ...