Tools & technology

Tools and other technologies employed by prehistoric humans.

Neanderthals lacked specialised cold weather clothing

admin / August 10, 2016

Study of faunal remains suggests garments with fur trim were made only by modern humans.

admin / March 10, 2016

Study shows how dietary changes and stone tools enabled reductions in size of teeth, jaws and gut.

admin / March 1, 2016

Mineral might have been sought for its combustion-enhancing properties rather than as black pigment.

admin / May 21, 2015

3.3-million-year-old tool tradition significantly predates the first humans.

admin / December 3, 2014

500,000-year-old shells provide earliest evidence for symbolic behaviour.

admin / October 7, 2014

Armenian findings provide insight into the Lower to Middle Palaeolithic transition.

admin / October 28, 2013

Study suggests Ethiopian Rift stone points were used as hafted javelin tips almost 280,000 years ago.

admin / August 30, 2013

Specialist bone tool predates arrival of Homo sapiens in Europe.

admin / September 4, 2010

Evidence from Dikika, Ethiopia.