An analysis looking at the hand bones of australopithecines, apes and humans reveals that tool use likely evolved before the ...

pottery or stone tools they found. They would have a sense that “this assemblage of objects was older than that,” said Marcello A. Canuto, a Tulane University archaeologist who researches Maya ...

Archaeologists thought they had found one grave, but excavation efforts turned up a treasure trove of ancient tools and coins ...

Researchers in Israel suggest the roughly donut-shaped artifacts could be spindle whorls, representing one of the oldest ...

"The spade itself would be a perfect tool for cutting peat," he added. Ed Treasure, from Wessex Archaeology who spearheaded the environmental analysis of the spade, stated that the tool had been ...

Only one other Bronze Age wooden tool, the Brynlow Shovel ... most complete wooden spades to have been discovered in the UK (Wessex Archaeology/PA Wire) Archaeologist Phil Trim, who led the ...

The discovery has been published in the recent study in the open-access journal PLOS ONE by Talia Yashuv and Leore Grosman of ...

3,500 to 3,400 years old, placing it firmly in the Middle Bronze Age,” said Ed Treasure of Wessex Archaeology. Treasure and his colleagues think the person who lost the tool made seasonal visits ...