But how did our ancestors develop and use tools to shape wood ... diverse in the Neolithic age, starting about 10,000 years ...

Awls were small, pointed hand tools employed in both the Old and New World to slice fibers for thread and fishing nets, and to punch holes in leather and wood. Stone Age peoples may also have ...

A Stone Age axe has ... Nine other flint tools, also dating back thousands of years, were also found in the dig, all of which were in good condition. Dr Bates said the axe was still sharp and ...

Our ancestors probably used a wide range of plant-based tools that have since been lost to history. Now we're finally getting a glimpse of this Botanic Age ...

A first-ever biomechanics study of two First Nations weapons systems has identified the design features that make them so ...

These tools were made by holding a rock in one hand and then hitting it with another stone, causing sharp flakes to chip off, Kathy Schick of the Stone Age Institute in Indiana, who the Associated ...

They used flint tools to hunt animals ... JavaScript is required to view this activity. In the early Stone Age, people made simple hand-axes out of stones. They made hammers from bones or antlers ...

As a result, technologies will vary according to the task at hand, the possible solutions ... Stereotypical ‘Later Stone Age tools', for example, are now recognized in many Middle Stone Age ...

Could be used to explore Stone Age technology – what tools did they use and how were ... of the Bronze Age and construct a Bronze Age axe head in exactly the same way Bronze Age man would ...

His work has previously appeared in Rolling Stone, The New York Times ... After a century unsolved, the Villisca axe murders have become the stuff of ghost tour fodder — the type of local ...

Awls were small, pointed hand tools employed in both the Old and New World to slice fibers for thread and fishing nets, and to punch holes in leather and wood. Stone Age peoples may also have ...

Dating of the volcanic ash and minerals around the area helped to give the stone tools an age of 3.3 million years. These stone artifacts predate the genus Homo, but who exactly was responsible ...