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 ...

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 ...

An archaeological dig at a site earmarked for housing has uncovered more than 300 stone age tools and artefacts. The 9,000-year-old site, on Castle Hill, Rhuddlan, Denbighshire, is "on a par with ...

It is not unusual to find many stone artefacts of hunter-gatherers out in the open, but here was a situation which we had ...

Several big and small stone tools dating back to the Mesolithic period - also called the middle stone age - have been found ... could be around 20,000 years old," says Rutivij Apte, who has ...

These tools were made a very ... insight into the life and times of higher status hunter-gatherers in the Old Stone Age by looking at The Red Lady of Paviland, one of the oldest skeletons found ...

In 1991, a 5300-year-old mummy was discovered ... who were buried with hunting tools, suggesting that our conception of men as the only hunters in Stone Age societies is an oversimplification ...

But two big fossil teeth found along with the tools at a site in Kenya belong to an extinct human cousin known as Paranthropus, according to a study published Thursday in the journal Science. This ...