Author: Tom Metcalfe

These 430,000-year-old wooden tools from Greece are a rare find and provide a glimpse at the technical know-how of our early human ancestors.

The work suggests early Homo sapiens developed enduring artistic practices as they moved through the islands of Southeast Asia.

Flower designs on 8,000-year-old Mesopotamian pots reveal a “mathematical knowledge” perhaps developed to share land and crops, archaeologists say.