Researchers believe they’ve found the earliest known use of hand-held wooden tools in human history. The team points to artifacts from Greece of crafted pieces of alder and either willow or poplar, ...

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The oldest handmade stone tools discovered yet predate any known humans and may have been wielded by an as-yet-unknown species, researchers say. The 3.3-million-year-old stone artifacts are the first ...

Ailsa Chang speaks with David Braun, an archeologist, about his team's discovery of a site in Kenya that suggests human ancestors built tools continuously much earlier than previously thought. So when ...

The earliest known hand-held wooden tools, used by our early human ancestors around 430,000 years ago, have been uncovered by researchers at an archeological site in Greece. One is made from the trunk ...

The story of human evolution may need a rewrite after 2.12-million-year-old tools were found in central China. The most ancient of these tools -- a collection of hammerstones, pointed pieces and ...

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Humans were manipulating wood to make tools 40,000 years earlier than we had previously thought. Researchers discovered two tools—one made of alder and the other of either willow or poplar—from ...