A pilot project to scan the surface material of an Iraqi desert revealed 850 different artifacts from the Old and Middle ...

The stone tools were quite the pull, considering the archaeologists who discovered them simply sifted through the surface and didn’t conduct deep digs. Along with the ancient hand axes ...

Interestingly, all the artifacts were found on the surface of the ground, not buried deep in the soil. These artifacts ...

Archaeologists have unearthed stone tools dating back over a ... edge dating technologies to determine that the tools are astonishingly ancient. “We can definitively state that these are among ...

Awls were small, pointed hand tools employed in both the Old and New World to slice fibers for thread and fishing nets, and to punch holes in leather and wood. Stone Age peoples may also have ...

The discoveries were focused on the Al-Shabakah area, which was once a large lake during the Pleistocene epoch but is now a ...

FOR some years past it has been felt by students of anthropology that the limits of their science were being pushed so far in every direction by various enthusiastic workers in almost every ...

Archaeologists from the Free University of Brussels (VUB), led by archaeologist Ella Egberts, unearthed ancient stone tools in Iraq's ... artifacts uncovered were hand axes estimated to be ...

According to preliminary judgments, the site may have been a slaughterhouse or the main living area of early human beings, which is of great significance to the study of ancient human's living ...