The company secured $4.3 million in seed funding to get the job done. Startup finds way to make 'prehistoric' technology useful in modern problem-solving: 'It was there before us, and it will be ...

Ancient stone carvings have long captured the imagination of historians and enthusiasts alike, with some suggesting these ...

Why study Paleolithic technology? What can old stone tools, ancient fire pits, and painted cave walls tell us about our evolutionary past? Humans occupy a rarified position in the modern world. We ...

Archaeologists have uncovered several prehistoric artifacts during an ongoing excavation at the Meadowcroft Rockshelter and ...

Prehistoric peoples developed multiple processes of striking these stones in precise, controlled ways to produce sharp-edged tools. This technology is now known as “flintknapping.” ...

Studying prehistoric production processes of birch bark tar using computational modelling reveals what kinds of cognition were required for the materials produced by Neanderthal and early modern ...

Stone tools bear microscopic evidence of ancient plant technology, according to a study published June 30, 2023 in the open-access journal PLOS ONE by Hermine Xhauflair of the University of the ...

Damage on 39,000-year-old tools may reveal a prehistoric ‘Age of Bamboo’ Using plant matter to make ropes and baskets is a tradition in the Philippines that's possibly been passed down for ...