Used by our early human ancestors around 430,000 years ago, the earliest known hand-held wooden tools have been uncovered by ...

Archaeologists have found the oldest-known surviving examples of handheld wooden tools.

Archaeologists working in southern Greece have identified wooden tools that appear to be the oldest of their kind ever found.

An international team has discovered the earliest known hand-held wooden tools used by humans. A study jointly led by ...

Old beliefs about early human behavior in East Asia are being challenged by the discovery of a richly-layered archaeological ...

The discovery was made in southern Greece, where two objects - thought to be around 430,000 years old - were found.

Researchers have found two wooden tools crafted and used by humans at a site some 430,000 years ago. One tool is made of ...

Learn how two wooden tools discovered in Greece mark the earliest known evidence of humans shaping wood, moving the timeline ...

"Researchers have argued for decades that while hominins in Africa and western Europe demonstrated significant technological ...

OUR prehistoric human ancestors relied on deliberately modified and sharpened stone tools as early as 3.3 million years ago. The selection of rock type depended on how easily the material could be ...

Finds from Greece and Britain suggest early hominins were shaping wood and bone with far more intention and ingenuity than ...