This 230,000 year old stone tool was made by an early Neanderthal.This handaxe is one of a thousand stone tools found with early Neanderthal remains in excavations at Pontnewydd Cave, Denbighshire.
Why study Paleolithic technology? What can old stone tools, ancient fire pits, and painted cave walls tell us about our evolutionary past? Humans occupy a rarified position in the modern world.
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 ...
The excavation site in Nyayanga where hundreds of stone tools dating to roughly 2.9 million years ago were found Archaeologists in Kenya have dug up some of the oldest stone tools ever used by ...
It begins with the earliest known use of stone tools by hominins, ancient ancestors to humans, during the Old Stone Age - beginning around 3.3million years ago. Between roughly 400,000 and 200,000 ...
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 ...