Researchers have observed wild-bearded capuchin monkeys in Brazil deliberately break stones, unintentionally creating flakes that share many of the characteristics of those produced by early Stone Age ...

University of Wollongong researchers have experimentally confirmed that changes in hammer strike angle significantly affect the fracture path and form of stone flakes produced by Neanderthals during ...

WHEN a representative series of flint implements is examined comprising examples of every stage of culture from the Neolithic back to the earliest Chelles-Palæolithic specimens, it will be observed ...

Toolmaking may not have been such a unique feat for our immediate ancestors after all – even modern monkeys have now been found to create stone tools. The surprising finding casts doubt on the ...