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Recently, a team of researchers have taken a second look at the oddly shaped stone. Experts from Dartmouth and the University of Cambridge say the stone is likely the earliest artistic depiction of an Acheulean handaxe.

A new discovery from ancient times shows how advanced early human woodworking skills are. Humans have shown that in every period, they are innovative and notable for their crafts that turn everyday materials into sophisticated tools, with a recent discovery in Schoningen, Germany.

In the past, scientists assumed that our direct ancestors were the only toolmakers. But two big fossil teeth found along with the tools at the Kenyan site belong to an extinct human cousin known as Paranthropus.

A recent study on archaeological findings in Kenya cast doubts on the initial assumption that direct relatives of human beings in the Homo lineage were the only tech-savvy creatures of the Stone Age.

Stone Age tools found in India cave

New findings hold global implications for understanding how expanding social networks contributed to the expansion of modern humans out of Africa.

A stone "Swiss Army Knife" that humans in vast regions appear to have made in the same way suggests widespread communication 65,000 years ago.

By: Times News Service Ali bin Khalfan Al-Farsi, owner of the Archaeological and Traditional Collectibles Exhibition in the wilayat of Al Buraimi. Muscat: The passion and love of ancient archaeological collections since childhood has led Ali bin Khalfan Al-Farsi, owner of the Archaeological and Traditional Collectibles Exhibition in the wilayat of Al Buraimi, to collect many archaeological items and ancient tools from various governorates of the Sultanate and to set up an exhibition for them. A...