Using modern-day flint-knappers as their subjects, anthropologists are studying what happens in the brain when people make stone tools. Their results suggest that the evolution of human language and ...

Long before the Upper Paleolithic Period, the late Stone Age, during which our immediate ancestors the Homo sapiens inhabited the Korean Peninsula, there were ancient Hominin, a group consisting of ...

Around 1455, a medieval French painter and miniaturist named Jean Fouquet painted a small diptych with two panels, one of which depicts St. Stephen holding a strangely shaped stone—usually interpreted ...

The two panels of "The Melun Diptych" (circa 1455) by Jean Fouquet: "Étienne Chevalier with Saint Stephen" (on the left), and "Virgin and Child Surrounded by Angels," in an exhibition at the ...

15.5 x 8.5 x 3.9 cm. (6.1 x 3.3 x 1.5 in.) ...

A 1.4-million-year-old handaxe made from hippopotamus bone expands the known technological repertoire of early human ancestors, according to a study. During the Pleistocene, Homo species developed ...