Ancient Chinese people may have used diamonds to polish their stone axes to mirrorlike finishes, according to a new analysis. Other than pushing back by several thousand years the date for the first ...

Have you ever found a Petoskey stone on a trip up north? They are so spectacularly beautiful that it’s no wonder they are designated as Michigan’s State Stone. The only problem with Petoskey stones is ...

The prehistoric inhabitants of the Philippines were able to make ropes and baskets from plant fibres almost 40,000 years ago, according to an analysis of stone tools. The find suggests the people ...

This polishing stone is more than 5,000 years old and was once used to sharpen ax heads. Historic England Archive To the untrained eye, the modest gray boulder in a Dorset, England, field would be ...

Discoveries in a Moroccan cave have provided a rare look at how Stone Age people may have turned animal skins into clothing. Bone tools, including hide scrapers and stone-tool sharpeners, were ...