A trip to a museum years later showed him that what he really had was likely a Neanderthal hand axe. Experts believe the flint axe was carved between 40,000 and 60,000 years ago. It’s not so ...

"The flint axe was the Swiss Army knife of its time. We know from research work that the part of the human brain which enables us to create such a tool is the same part responsible for forming ...

This axe, discovered in 1859, was the first strong evidence that we have been here for much longer. It is thought to be around 400,000 years old and, since then, even older stone tools have been ...

About 8,500 years ago, a 5'6" man with size 11 feet walked along the Severn Estuary at 2.6 miles per hour carrying a heavy load on his right shoulder. Archaeologists deduced all this from a series of ...