ANCESTRAL humans may have left Africa half a million years earlier than generally thought, according to archaeologists who claim to have found a primitive stone tool from 2.6 million years ago in ...

FLINT, Michigan — The human remains were found among old housing debris, late 19th century refuse and modern-day garbage. But now the ancestral relatives of the Saginaw Chippewa Indian Tribe are ...

sharper tools using a style of flint knapping known as Levallois. The emergence of Levallois technology is associated with what is known as the Middle Stone Age in Africa and the Middle ...

COWDEN – Josh Wehrle is a 21st-century hunter with a keen nose for tracking down traces of the Stone Age ... Illinois is one of the nation's top flint tool hotspots because a lot of Indians ...

Blade cores provided a portable source of stone or obsidian for manufacturing different kinds of tools by flaking off pieces from the core. The basis of many Upper Paleolithic tool forms from both ...

Stanistreet is also affiliated with the Stone Age Institute at IU. The team's conclusions are based upon a theoretical framework and computational tools developed in the Perception/Action Lab at ...

Stone age people in Pakistan were using ... had a go at curing toothache with drills made from flint heads. The team that carried out the work say close examination of the teeth shows the tool was ...

and a flint knife found in the 1940s that had impressions of grain seeds in the tar that held the stone tool into the wooden handle. Although the grain impressions suggest these unique objects may ...