We’ll probably never pin down precisely when early humans first used weapons beyond their own hands, feet, and teeth. Homo sapiens and even earlier hominins have been fashioning tools of one kind or ...

Archaeologists in Russia have made an extraordinary discovery. They have identified a spear carved from bone that’s about ...

Modern humans (Homo sapiens ... making projectile weapons; they had the controlled use of fire," he said. "You start to see the emergence of specialization, different tools for different tasks.

In addition to weapons and work tools, the burials contained mineral ... This region served as a vital link between Africa, where Homo sapiens first appeared, and Eurasia, where Neanderthals ...

Ancient scavengers of the beached beasts turned their bones into implements that spread across a large area, researchers say.

According to the study authors, these stone tools were made by Homo sapiens and are the oldest ... possibly assuming they would need weapons for protection or hunting. The design of the blades ...

Fossils and DNA suggest people looking like us, anatomically modern Homo sapiens, evolved around 300,000 years ago. Surprisingly, archaeology – tools, artifacts, cave art – suggest that ...

Early humans made tools out of bone 1.5 million years ago : Short Wave Archeologists know early humans used stone to make tools long before the time of Homo sapiens.But a new discovery out this ...

Archaeologists in the Iberian Peninsula have discovered a 65,000-year-old tar-making "factory" engineered by Neanderthals — a feat pulled off 20,000 years before modern humans (Homo sapiens ...

“better tools, better weapons, proper language, art and symbolism, better brains.” Now, a new study published Friday in Science may have a solution: a gene mutation in Homo sapiens that ...