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An ancient campsite and hundreds of stone artifacts were unearthed near the 13 th century Rhuddlan Castle in Rhuddlan, Denbighshire, Wales. Additionally, they were located close to Twthill which is the location of a motte (or mound) dating back to the 11 th century and is believed to be where the town’s first castle was built. Denbighshire county councilor Ann Davies explained that a house was approved to be built on Hylas Lane which is near the castle and Twthill so they decided that an archaeological dig would be conducted prior to the construction and that’s when they found the artifac...

“We found a lot of  worked flint  from the Mesolithic period,” Richard Cooke explained. “There were three post holes, material from which was  carbon dated  at between 9220 and 9280 years old.” In total, the archaeologists recovered 314 stone objects buried at the site. In addition to flints they also found many chipped pieces of  chert, a hard sedimentary rock made from quartz crystals that is suitable for making tools. A few intact, rudimentary stone tools made from these materials were found at the new site, including scrapers that were likely hand-manufactured to cut meat an...

Follow Jan. 21, 2021 Starting about 2.6 million years ago, no archaic human would leave the cave without one. Archaeologists called these flint implements “chopping tools,” even though their actual use remained hotly debated. They weren’t the first stone tools ever used by hominins, but were the earliest known to be produced in a standardized fashion: the outer layer of the rock was left unmolested, and one end was knapped to have a sharp edge. The hominin would, presumably, grab the non-sharpened end and hit things with the edge. Chopping tools were the implement that would be longest ...

Prior to workers in North Carolina clearing out land for the Triangle Expressway, archaeologists investigated the site to see if there were any signs that the original inhabitants of the state once occupied the area and what they found was pretty exciting. In an interview with ABC11, Matt Wilkerson, who is the head of the archaeology unit with the North Carolina Department of Transportation (NCDOT), described what they found, “As a result of the survey for this entire corridor, we identified, I believe, it’s over 155 sites.” These sites were located in the southeastern part of Wake Cou...

A team of international archaeologists and paleoanthropologists unearthed a big amount of stone tools dating back 2 million years during the Early Pleistocene period in addition to fossilized bones and plant materials. The discovery was made at a site called Ewass Oldupa which is located in the western part of the ancient basin Olduvai Gorge (now called Oldupai) in the northern part of Tanzania. The stone tools that were found were part of the Oldowan which is the oldest-known stone tool industry that dates back 2.6 million years and were believed to have been created by Homo habilis althoug...