Stone tools

Discoveries Ancient keepsakes may have helped shape human memory and identity

A new hypothesis links collected stones and old tools with personal memory, proposing a possible feedback between material culture and human cognition.

Discoveries Ice Age spears reveal how America’s earliest hunters learned to survive Joseph Shavit

Discoveries 146,000-year-old tools suggest human ingenuity thrived during the ice age Rebecca Shavit

Discoveries Ancient stone tools in China reveal an unexpectedly early start to human technology Joshua Shavit

Discoveries Early humans started making and using tools 2.75 million years ago Joseph Shavit

Discoveries Ancient stone tools reveal how early seafarers from Asia became America’s first people Joshua Shavit