Symbols found carved into 40,000-year-old artifacts may be precursor to writing

Sculptures and tools from the Stone Age show markings that could be an early precursor to written language, according to a ...

14,000-year-old ivory tools found in Alaska hint at how Clovis ancestors first arrived in the New World

Ancient artifacts unearthed in Alaska revealed migrants from Asia might have come to the Americas via an inland route, and ...

40,000-year-old German artifacts may display written language precursor

By Will Dunham WASHINGTON, Feb 24 (Reuters) - A small object called the Adorant figurine discovered in a cave in Germany in ...

Oldest handheld wooden tools ever? Ancient artifacts preserved in mud mystify archaeologists

Archaeologists believe they've found the oldest wooden tools ever discovered — potentially 430,000 years old — in Greece's ...

An avalanche buried Alta’s past. A construction crew just uncovered it

Archaeologist Jeremy Moore looked on as workers dug the trench near Alta last summer. The first few days of the dig proved ...

40,000-year-old Stone Age symbols may have paved the way for writing, long before Mesopotamia

Over 40,000 years ago, our early ancestors were already carving signs into tools and sculptures. According to a new analysis ...
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430,000-Year-Old Wooden Tools Are the Oldest Ever Found

The finding, along with the discovery of a 500,000-year-old hammer made of bone, indicates that our human ancestors were making tools even earlier than archaeologists thought. By Franz Lidz Early ...