Read More: Humans Shaped Ancient History Across 3 Ages: The Stone, Bronze, and Iron Age Pushing Back the Mass Production of Bone Tools. Hominins, the taxonomic "tribe" that includes humans and ...

Ice skates made of bone have been unearthed from a Bronze Age tomb in western China, ... Unknown human species in East Asia used sophisticated tools at the same time Neanderthals did in Europe; ...

For a study published in the journal Antiquity, researchers analyzed more than 3,000 bones and bone fragments attributed to dozens of individuals from the Early Bronze Age site of Charterhouse ...

2,000-year-old statues discovered that archaeologists say could "rewrite history" 01:00 Skeletal remains and skull fragments of two Bronze Age women were found at a construction site in the U.K.

Now, researchers have found the precious pigment within pottery fragments containing 3,600-year-old purple dye from a Bronze Age workshop in Kolonna on the Greek island of Aegina.

Early humans used animal bones to craft tools — more than a million years earlier than scientists previously thought, according to new research published this week. A group of researchers from ...

"The bone tools and materials excavated at the central mound of Shimao mark the threshold of this transition, leading up to the rise of the massive Bronze Age workshops at Zhengzhou, Anyang, and ...

The Bronze Age in Britain began around 2,500 BC and lasted for nearly 1,500 years. It was a time when sophisticated bronze tools, pots and weapons were brought over from continental Europe.

Bronze Age burial sites have been unearthed during a dig in Wiltshire. Five barrows - round monuments built usually between 2200 BC and 1100 BC - were discovered during excavation works in Harnham ...

Archaeologists have dug up a collection of mass-produced bone tools, the earliest ever discovered, suggesting that hominins systematically made tools out of bone around 1 million years earlier than ...