Researchers believe the ancient wood, found in Greece, is actually evidence of the earliest hand-held wooden tool usage in ...

Have you ever rummaged through your garage, stumbling upon dusty old tools that seem to have been forgotten for ages? You ...

The "very rare" find provides an extraordinary glimpse into the ingenuity of early human relatives who lived around half a ...

Tough and charming, some old tools will outlive their owners but not their function -- hammering, cutting, and chopping for ...

Archaeologists unearthed a collection of hand axes that are the largest and oldest known stone tools found in Britain. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.

A pilot project to scan the surface material of an Iraqi desert revealed 850 different artifacts from the Old and Middle Paleolithic eras. Included in the finds were ancient stone hand axes that date ...

Some sixty years after her grandmother discovered “Nutcracker Man,” Louise Leakey unearths his long-lost hand—reviving a family debate about ancient toolmaking. The fossilized hand of a male ...

Two giant hand axes have been uncovered in prehistoric sediment in England. The tools, which are more than 300,000-year-old, are so big they are difficult to handle. Archaeologists think they may have ...

These classic kitchen tools may look old-fashioned, but an expert says they still deliver better results than many modern gadgets.