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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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 ...

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 ...

Ancient stone tools have been previously unearthed in Africa, but the latest discovery was formed from a hippopotamus femur 1.4 million years ago -making it the oldest of its kind. The tool derives ...