The first time archaeologist John Shea looked at what might be the oldest stone tools ever found, he almost blew them off. “Are you kidding me?” he remembers asking Sonia Harmand, his colleague at ...

When monkeys in Thailand use stones as hammers and anvils to help them crack open nuts, they often accidentally create sharp flakes of rock that look like the stone cutting tools made by early humans.

A 1.45-million-year-old hominid leg fossil sports previously unrecognized evidence of our ancient evolutionary relatives butchering and possibly eating one another, a new study claims. An ancient ...

Nicholas Blackwell and his father went to a hardware store about three years ago seeking parts for a mystery device from the past. They carefully selected wood and other materials to assemble a ...

The town of Leominster’s mayor’s office and health department have awarded a certificate of environmental achievement to the Cutting Edge Stone Works for its efforts to reduce its water use and lessen ...

Ryobi's steady presence in the hand tool and power tool industry should reassure any home improvement enthusiast. The company has been designing and delivering power tools since 1968, but it traces ...

There are numerous tools you can throw in the back of your pickup truck or service vehicles. But when it comes to cutting through challenging materials, you need a tool that can slice through whatever ...

Knowing the length and depth of the cut is just the beginning when selecting the right saw for your customer's cutting applications. Walk-behind concrete saws come in a range of sizes, from compact 4- ...

Man's ancestors transported stones over long distances to craft tools 2.6 million years ago - 600,000 years earlier than previously thought. Stone tools unearthed in Kenya reveal that hominins ...