At Tumar, women in Kyrgyzstan are bringing together ancient nomadic felting techniques ... sheared their sheeps’ lush and thick wool, and used heat, water, and friction to felt it into the ...

A deadly infection that is spread by body lice might have emerged thousands of years ago thanks to a new fashion trend: wool. Ancient genomes of the spiral-shaped bacterium Borrelia recurrentis ...

Researchers know that early people made simple tools from stones as early as 3.3 million years ago. The new discovery, published Wednesday in Nature, reveals that ancient humans “had rather more ...

"It's very, very hard." Dr Njau and his colleagues have unearthed 27 ancient crafted bone tools, mostly from the legs of hippopotamuses and elephants in the Olduvai Gorge in Tanzania. Their ...

A newly discovered cache of 27 carved and sharpened bones from elephants and hippos found in Tanzania’s Olduvai Gorge site pushes back the date for ancient bone tool use by around 1 million years.