A fragment of elephant bone used to sharpen stone axes nearly half a million years ago has been identified as the oldest ...

Prior to the coming of French and English traders, who brought with them iron tools, Native Americans in this region were limited to using wood and stone for their weapons and tools. A wide range of ...

A student taking part in his first ever archaeological dig has discovered an incredible ax dating back to the 'New Stone Age.' Joe Neal, a second-year archaeology student at the University of Wales ...

A gardener weeding a raspberry patch in Potok Górny stumbled on a fragment of an ancient stone ax, photo show and archaeologists said. Google Street View August 2012 ...

Six millennia after a stone ax was carved, it was rediscovered by a pair of Ohio teens on an archaeological dig at George Washington's Mount Vernon estate. The Washington Post reports Mount Vernon ...

Archaeologist Laura Dietrich studies a replica Stone Age axe in Germany. While not from the Latvian site, such replicas reveal how ancient tools were used. Some 6,000 years ago in the northern reaches ...

An exquisitely decorated 7,500-year-old antler from central Sweden was first used as a battle ax and later probably as a fishing harpoon during the Stone Age, a new study suggests. Researchers found ...