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 ...

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 ...

Ancient genomes reveal that a bacterial fever jumped from human-borne ticks to lice around the time wool textiles became common. A deadly infection that is spread by body lice might have emerged ...

"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.