About 9,000 years ago, Mesolithic humans in Ireland buried someone important on the banks of the River Shannon in Hermitage, County Limerick. The burial, originally uncovered in 2001, is notable for ...

Between 7530 and 7320 BCE, a funeral took place on the banks of the river Shannon in what is today County Limerick, Ireland. Now, more than 9000 years later, the site provides a window into the burial ...

This jade axe is highly polished and would have taken hours to make. However, it is unmarked and was not used to cut wood. It was probably a luxury status symbol, indicating its owner's power and ...

Australian archaeologists have discovered a piece of the world's oldest axe in the remote Kimberley region of Western Australia. Australian archaeologists have discovered a piece of the world's oldest ...

We have looked at the way the first huntergatherer bands of humans in Costa Rica survived, and some of the chipped stone artifacts they made to do so (e-mail me if you would like to see others). These ...

NALGONDA: A polished stone axe made of black basalt from the Neolithic period, dating back to around 4000 BCE, was found at Gundrampalli in Chityal mandal. The prehistoric stone tool, measuring 15 x 5 ...

When Japanese scientists wanted to learn more about how ground stone tools dating back to the Early Upper Paleolithic might have been used, they decided to build their own replicas of adzes, axes, and ...

Lucy Harnden brought this polished stone axe head to BBC Guernsey's outside broadcast event at the Guernsey Museum. It was found by her great grandmother Eliza Henry about a hundred years ago in her ...

A 5,000-year-old axe washed up on a Galway beach after the severe storms that battered Ireland in early 2014. It was described as "a precious find" by experts. Connemara resident Elizabeth Moylan came ...

Australian archaeologists have discovered a piece of the world's oldest axe in the remote Kimberley region of Western Australia. The axe fragment is about the size of a thumbnail and dates back to a ...

Lucy Harnden brought this polished stone axe head to BBC Guernsey's outside broadcast event at the Guernsey Museum. It was found by her great grandmother Eliza Henry about a hundred years ago in her ...