The two panels of "The Melun Diptych" (circa 1455) by Jean Fouquet: "Étienne Chevalier with Saint Stephen" (on the left), and "Virgin and Child Surrounded by Angels," in an exhibition at the ...

(Phys.org) —Stone Age man's gradual improvement in tool development, particularly in crafting stone handaxes, is providing insight into the likely mental advances these early humans made a million ...

Far up in the Ethiopian highlands, the resounding strike of stone against stone was probably a familiar one two million years ago. Ancient hominids chipped away to create simple tools: hammerstones ...

Maybe those stone tools crafted by our ancestors were more than just prehistoric knives used to slice apart dead gazelle, zebra or other game animal across Africa. A new study in the journal Nature ...

Archaeologists have unearthed a collection of 27 fossilized bone tools within the Olduvai Gorge in Tanzania. For over a million years, early hominins had been shaping stone into tools. But evidence of ...

In an earlier post, we introduced the ancient stone tool design known as a handaxe and discussed some of the implications that it has for the evolution of cognition. Here we continue this discussion ...

Around 1455, a medieval French painter and miniaturist named Jean Fouquet painted a small diptych with two panels, one of which depicts St. Stephen holding a strangely shaped stone—usually interpreted ...

The study of ThI-L is part of the Préhistoire de Casablanca joint program led and supported by the Institut National des Sciences de l’Archéologie et du Patrimoine (INSAP) of the Ministère de la ...