Used by our early human ancestors around 430,000 years ago, the earliest known hand-held wooden tools have been uncovered by ...

Archaeologists have found the oldest-known surviving examples of handheld wooden tools.

Learn how two wooden tools discovered in Greece mark the earliest known evidence of humans shaping wood, moving the timeline ...

Archaeologists working in southern Greece have identified wooden tools that appear to be the oldest of their kind ever found.

Old beliefs about early human behavior in East Asia are being challenged by the discovery of a richly-layered archaeological ...

"Researchers have argued for decades that while hominins in Africa and western Europe demonstrated significant technological ...

An international team has discovered the earliest known hand-held wooden tools used by humans. A study jointly led by Professor Katerina Harvati from the Senckenberg Centre for Human Evolution and ...

The earliest known examples of wooden hand-held tools, believed to be 430,000 years old, have been discovered by researchers ...

Archaeologists in central China have uncovered evidence that early humans were far more inventive than long assumed. Excavations at the Xigou site reveal advanced stone tools, including the earliest ...

An archaeological discovery of two artifacts in southern Greece are the oldest known handheld wooden tools fashioned by early human ancestors.

Finds from Greece and Britain suggest early hominins were shaping wood and bone with far more intention and ingenuity than ...