Ancient fragments of twisted fibers show Neanderthals grasped math and had a materialistic culture
The fragments are at least 41,000 years old. They were found attached to a stone tool.
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Capuchin monkeys are 3,000 years into their own Stone Age
In a remote area of Brazil, capuchin monkeys have been adapting their own stone tools for thousands of years.
Archaeologists date prehistoric “Swiss army knife” from Chinese cave
It's a tool built by humanity's ancestors.
Early human ancestors may not have passed down knowledge but simply crafted tools on instinct
Luckily we're really big on it now.
Macaques may have just entered the Stone Age
Crack open a nutty one.
Around 4,500 years ago, Vietnamese stone-age traders traveled hundreds of kilometers to sell their wares
Unsurprisingly, they traded a lot of stone.
Advanced 77,000-year-old Stone Age weapons found in South Africa
Things became very serious at this point.
World’s oldest fillings come from the stone age and they’re basically asphalt
Sink your teeth into this story.
Time to update the Paleo Diet — it was heavy on plants and veggies, archaeologists found
Best enjoyed with a stone fork from a bark plate.
About 100,000 years ago, people with autism were championed, not shunned, and may even have shaped human evolution
Their unique skills provided a huge advantage to the groups who embraced them.
Wild oats might be the first cereal consumed by humans, as early as the Stone Ages
While analysing starch grains on ancient stone grinding tools from southern Italy, Marta Mariotti Lippi at the University of Florence ...
Fifteen ton Monolith found under the Mediterranean Sea, estimates put its carving at 9350 years ago
Zvi Ben-Avraham of Tel Aviv University and Emanuele Lodolo of the National Institute of Oceanography and Experimental Geophysics in Trieste, ...
Oldest dental filling is beeswax
Researchers have found what's believed to be the oldest dental feeling in history, dating from the stone age. The find ...
The oldest dildo could come from the Stone Age
Sex toys have definitely come a long way these past years, but as it turns out, they're probably not as ...