In this real-life Minecraft experiment, I attempt to build functional Minecraft-style stone tools! Inspired by the iconic stone axe, pickaxe, and shovel, I set out to create tools with that blocky, ...

While early human ancestors started making stone tools at least 2.6 million years ago, bone tools took much longer to appear. The earliest signs of a regular use of bone tools hadn’t shown up in the ...

Ancient humans were regularly making tools out of animal bones 1.5 million years ago – more than a million years earlier than previously thought. This indicates that they could adapt the techniques ...