The ancestors of humans started making tools about 3.3 million years ago. First they made them out of stone, then they switched to bone as a raw material. Until recently, the earliest clear evidence ...

Olduvai Gorge is a Unesco World Heritage site. It became well known in 1959 through the pioneering work of palaeontologists Louis and Mary Leakey, whose discoveries of early human remains reshaped our ...

You really want a small hunting knife to field dress a deer. What you’re doing is akin to surgery, and you wouldn’t want a surgeon to pull your appendix out with a bowie knife. That said ...

You’ll find my top two knives: The TOPS Fieldcraft 3.5 and Mora Garberg in this review. You’ll also find selections from Outdoor Life staff, mainly OL’s gear editor who enjoys bushcraft as a way to ...

Before this discovery, it was believed that our primitive ancestors relied almost exclusively on stone tools. However, the finding suggests that hominins of this era also exploited other materials, ...

On Wednesday, a surprising technological breakthrough was presented: the oldest bone tools ever discovered. Nearly 30 knives, some up to 40 centimeters long, were carved by our ancestors 1.5 million ...

Bone knives and bone curettes were used to debride the damaged cartilage, necrotic and devitalized tissue, as well as sclerotic bone, down to fresh bleeding bone bed (Figure 1C). Generally, the ...

Even if you take perfect care of your kitchen knives, the blades are likely to to dull over time—especially with regular use. If you’re hoping to restore them to their factory edges ...

A woman has been handed a suspended sentence after being convicted of having a knife in Watford town centre. Lisa Coleman, of no fixed abode, was given a three-month sentence, suspended for a year at ...