Archaeologists with the Colorado State University (CSU) Center for Environmental Management of Military Lands (CEMML) were investigating an archaeological site near the North Flowage when they ...

Fort McCoy has archaeological sites within its boundaries that represent more than 10,000 years of history. Most of the artifacts from those sites which pre-date European contact are either stone ...

When Japanese scientists wanted to learn more about how ground stone tools dating back to the Early Upper Paleolithic might have been used, they decided to build their own replicas of adzes, axes, and ...

Thousands of Egyptians have signed an online petition that called for the return of the Rosetta stone and other ancient Egyptian artifacts housed by the British Museum in London. The petition, written ...

Our ancient ancestors weren’t fumbling with crude rocks. A groundbreaking archaeological discovery in Kenya reveals they had mastered a stone tool technology so effective that they stuck with it for ...

The stone contains two languages, Egyptian and Greek, and three different texts: hieroglyphics, ancient Egyptian demotic, and ancient Greek. The Greek passage announced that all three scripts were of ...

A 7,500-year-old stone seal found in eastern Turkey reveals clues about prehistoric administration, trade, and identity.

The earliest humans crossed the barriers of the ocean to occupy isolated islands and disperse out of mainland Southeast Asia. Early hominins made this journey to reach the Indonesian island of ...

Monkeys in modern-day Thai forests create stone artifacts uncannily similar to those crafted by early humans — challenging the established narrative of human cultural evolution. A new study published ...

When monkeys in Thailand use stones as hammers and anvils to help them crack open nuts, they often accidentally create sharp flakes of rock that look like the stone cutting tools made by early humans.

Bone artifacts discovered in Tanzania push back the earliest known date of bone tool technology by over a million years. In Olduvai Gorge, archaeologists have discovered a range of bone tools thought ...