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

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

In the hills of southwestern China, near the ancient shoreline of Fuxian Lake, a major archaeological discovery has reshaped how scientists understand the early use of tools. A collection of 35 wooden ...

430,000-year-old well-preserved wooden tools are the oldest ever found - Alder digging or scraping tool found at lake-side ...

You hold an electric drill in your hand, so that makes it a hand tool, right? It's an amusing thought, but the people who actually write the safety rules beg to differ. The Occupational Safety and ...

Archaeologists found 1.5-million-year-old hand fossils belonging to an ape-like early human relative. The shape of the bones suggest that their owner, a species called Paranthropus boisei, was capable ...