All Articles Tagged As: tools

World's oldest computer link to early Olympics (8/1/2008)

A 2,100-year-old computer recorded the dates of the early Olympiads ...> Full Article

Using Modern Tools to Learn About Ancient People (7/23/2008)

Project will track the evolution of shapes of ancient artifacts ...> Full Article

Britain's last Neanderthals were more sophisticated than we thought (6/25/2008)

An archaeological excavation at a site near Pulborough, West Sussex, has thrown remarkable new light on the life of northern Europe's last Neanderthals. It provides a snapshot of a thriving, developing population - rather than communities on the verge of extinction. ...> Full Article

Cutting-edge weapons result of prehistoric experimentation (6/13/2008)

Researchers find stone projectile variations point to early technological experimentation ...> Full Article

Research chips away at the past (4/8/2008)

Archaeologist is following tool migration to learn how humans migrated throughout the world ...> Full Article

Evidence of Ice Age hunters found below North Sea (3/15/2008)

An amazing collection of 28 flint hand-axes, dated by archaeologists to be around 100,000 years-old, have been unearthed in gravel from a licensed marine aggregate dredging area 13km off Great Yarmouth. ...> Full Article

Chimps Dig Up Clues to Human Past? (11/14/2007)

One of the keys enabling the earliest human ancestors to trade a forest home for more open country may have been the ability to gather underground foods. Now a team of scientists reports for the first time that in Tanzania our closest living relatives, chimpanzees, are using sticks and pieces of bark to dig for edible roots, tubers and bulbs. ...> Full Article