Ancient hunter-gatherers from Sri Lanka’s western rainforests used a quartz-containing “flexible toolkit” to hunt small mammals, new research shows. The researchers discovered South Asia’s oldest ...

Our closest cousins, the Neanderthals, excelled at making stone tools and hunting animals, and survived the rigors of multiple ice ages. So why did they disappear 27,000 years ago? While identifying ...

The 6,500-year-old weapons, found in a cave near Marfa, could be among the oldest near-complete set of wood and stone hunting tools found in North America. By Livia Albeck-Ripka The 6,500-year-old ...

Stone “Clovis points” used by prehistoric hunters to kill animals are also remarkably efficient at cutting meat off a large animal carcass – at least according to a modern bison butchering experiment.

A recent archeological dig in India uncovered stone tools, weapons, and other artifacts made by early humans which resemble tools found in Eastern and Southern Africa. The artifacts may help shed ...

Learn how your family history is connected to the human journey with National Geographic’s Geno DNA ancestry kit. Long ago in what’s now southern India, early humans showed a knack for disruption that ...

Archaeologists in France have uncovered a mysterious carved stone block at a prehistoric hunting site. The stone was found during excavations at Angouleme in southwestern France. A number of ...

Stone tools fashioned by early humans up to 385,000 years ago in India could upend a common narrative about the origins of modern humans. The well-known “out of Africa” theory posits that homo sapiens ...

In 2008, Wiliam Nelson found an ancient American Indian stone tool at the base of a tree near Mount Vernon in Knox County. People have lived in Ohio for more than 13,000 years, making and using stone ...