In the shadow of a coal mine in southern Greece, archaeologists discovered the oldest known handheld wooden tools ever found.

Found in southern Greece, the stick was one of two wooden artifacts that appear to have been shaped intentionally, according ...

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

The "very rare" find provides an extraordinary glimpse into the ingenuity of early human relatives who lived around half a ...

Archaeologists uncover a 500,000-year-old elephant bone tool in Europe, offering rare insight into early human innovation.

Discovered in southern England in the mid-1990s, the artifact may have been made by Neanderthals or Homo heidelbergensis, according to a new study ...

The finding, along with the discovery of a 500,000-year-old hammer made of bone, indicates that our human ancestors were ...

Two unassuming pieces of wood recovered from a prehistoric lakeshore in southern Greece have become a headline-grabbing rarity - the oldest known handheld wooden tools, dated to around 430,000 years ...

A team of archaeologists from University College London (UCL) and the Natural History Museum in London has identified and ...