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 ...

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 ...

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 ...