Bone artifacts discovered in Tanzania push back the earliest known date of bone tool technology by over a million years.

Data recovery excavations typically focus on exposing archaeological features. These intrusions in the soil made by humans include the traces of posts or foundations that supported a building, cellars ...

Twenty-seven standardised bone tools dating back more than 1.5 million years were recently discovered in the Olduvai Gorge in ...

Twenty-seven standardized bone tools dating back more than 1.5 million years were recently discovered in the Olduvai Gorge in ...

This most intensive stage of excavation requires careful planning ... On such sites (like the ones at Front Street), archaeologists sometimes use heavy machinery like a Gradall. This kind of equipment ...

The discovery marks the earliest known physical evidence of fire-making technology discovered in China to date.

A recent study of stone blades found in the United Arab Emirates has revealed the earliest known evidence of systematic stone tool production in Arabia. Numerous elongated blades with parallel edges ...

The Caoyangang archaeological site spans over 86,000 square feet, so researchers in China have extracted over 3,000 artifacts from the dig, such as bone tools, pottery, wooden objects, and animal ...

An archaeological discovery in the Olduvai Gorge in Tanzania has changed our understanding of the technological evolution of ...