About 1.4 million years ago the ancestors of modern man constructed what is believed to be the first-ever tool: the hand axe. And now designers of reimagined what those primitive tools might be like ...

LOS ANGELES - Ancient humans fashioned hand axes, cleavers and picks much earlier than believed, but didn't take the stone tools along when they left Africa, new research suggests. A team from the ...

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Hyderabad: Paleolithic tools, including a stone axe, were found in a stream between Gurrevula and Bhupathipuram villages in Telangana’s Mulugu district. History enthusiasts of Kotha Telangana Charitra ...

A prehistoric stone hand ax discovered in Sainte-Gabelle, Haute-Garonne, France. From the collection of Charles Fouque, currently seen at the Museum of Toulouse. Courtesy of Didier Descouens/Wikimedia ...

The ability to make a Lower Paleolithic hand axe depends on complex cognitive control by the prefrontal cortex, including the 'central executive' function of working memory, a new study finds. The ...

The hand axe is the first tool. Ever. Contrary to the opening sequence of 2001: A Space Odyssey, this tool isn't a bone, but a pointy rock - which is pretty impressive when you consider that it dates ...

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