Archaeologists found flint, iron pyrite to strike it and sediments where a fire was probably built several times at an ...

Researchers say they’ve uncovered new evidence in present-day England that could reshape our understanding of human evolution ...

The Hopewell culture was a virtual explosion of monumental architecture, art and ceremony centered in southern Ohio between about 100 B.C. and A.D. 400. One of the most striking features of the ...

What it is: A flint tool with a wooden handle and birch tar Where it is from: Öhningen, southern Germany When it was made: 3800 to 3500 B.C. Related: Hohle Fels water bird: The oldest depiction of a ...

Early Bronze Age (ca. 3600-2000 B.C.) lithic assemblages of the southern Levant have been thoroughly analyzed, both from the technological and typological viewpoints. Among the characteristic flint ...

As we are interested in early American Indian sites, we enjoyed our recent visit to the Flint Ridge State Memorial in Glenford, Ohio. The museum, built around a restored prehistoric quarry, focuses on ...

Oct. 23 (UPI) --Neanderthals were using sophisticated methods to extract birch tar and use it as an adhesive in tool making. Scientists recently found traces of the ancient glue on the handle of a ...