The Hopewell culture was a virtual explosion of monumental architecture, art and ceremony centered in southern Ohio between about 100 B.C. and A.D. 400. One of the most striking features of the ...

Recreation of the exchange of lithic raw materials somewhere between the center of the Iberian Peninsula and southwestern France 25,000 years ago. Credit: M. Sánchez de la Torre et al. 2026 / ...

What it is: A flint tool with a wooden handle and birch tar Where it is from: Öhningen, southern Germany When it was made: 3800 to 3500 B.C. Related: Hohle Fels water bird: The oldest depiction of a ...

Potential human ancestor Homo heidelbergensis used this 480,000-year-old bone hammer to create flint tools. UCL Institute of Archaeology Some 480,000 years ago, a group of 30 to 40 early hominins met ...

A new study asks what drove prehistoric humans to collect and recycle flint tools that had been made, used, and discarded by their predecessors. After examining flint tools from one layer at the ...

A new study reveals that the early humans known as Acheulians crafted tiny flint tools out of recycled larger discarded instruments as part of a comprehensive animal-butchery tool kit. The Acheulian ...

Stephen has degrees in science (Physics major) and arts (English Literature and the History and Philosophy of Science), as well as a Graduate Diploma in Science Communication. Stephen has degrees in ...

Oct. 23 (UPI) --Neanderthals were using sophisticated methods to extract birch tar and use it as an adhesive in tool making. Scientists recently found traces of the ancient glue on the handle of a ...