Best for: Chopping and splitting firewood. Sized between a hatchet and a felling axe, this medium-sized tool can be used ...

Deep in a trench in Tanzania, researchers found dozens of tools crafted from animal bones some 1.5 million years old.

The tool is a combination of a fire axe and an adze (or hoe), allowing firefighters to chop or dig with the flip of a wrist. Its design has remained largely unchanged since its creation over 100 ...

The bone tools were “probably used as a hand axe” – a handheld blade that’s not mounted on a stick – for butchering dead ...

The Wenquan Paleolithic site in Ruzhou, Central China's Henan Province, has yielded a collection of Acheulean tools, ...