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.

Hominins developed large, extremely complex stone tools for the time, such as axes and picks, placing them firmly in the later stage of Acheulean technology. These tools were used for multiple ...

Previous research has shown that the oldest known use of stone tools is by Oldowan hominins, dating back to approximately 2.5 million years ago. They used rocks as choppers, scrapers and simple ...

Stone tools in Ukraine dated to 1.4 million years ago may be the earliest solid evidence of humans in Europe, a new study reveals. The makers of these tools likely weren't Homo sapiens but a close ...

Eating animals and using sharp-edged stone tools to butcher is an important example of the intersection between the human diet and technology. The ecological contexts surrounding foraging behavior and ...

Modern chimpanzees select rock tools in similar ways to Oldowan hominins, early humans who used stone tools that date ... understand the differences between technology use by nonhuman primates ...