Later artifacts dating back to Mesolithic and Neolithic time periods were more sophisticated, as people learned how to use polished stone tools to make canoes, bows, and wells and to build houses.

Excavated implements suggest a Homo species arrived on Sulawesi over 1 million years ago, before a nearby island hosted hobbit ancestors.

Homo erectus likely underwent hundreds of thousands of years of dwarfism on that isolated island to evolve into the hobbit ...

In the grave from the Neolithic period, however, the burial goods included a stone bracelet, polished stone tools and pieces of pottery, he said.

It existed between the Paleolithic Period (or Old Stone Age), known for its chipped stone tools and the Neolithic Period (New Stone Age), which had polished stone tools.

This period was known for polished stone tools, more permanent settlements and villages instead of hunter-gathering societies, domesticated plants and animals, and some pretty strong women.

Ancient wooden tools found at a site in Gantangqing in southwestern China are approximately 300,000 years old, new dating has shown. Discovered during excavations carried out in 2014–15 and 2018–19, ...

Grave goods, such as stone tools, have revealed that Neolithic farmers had different work-related activities for men and women. Researchers at the University of York analysed 400 stone objects ...

A multi-proxy comparison through grave good stone tool technological and use-wear analysis. PLOS ONE, 2021; 16 (4): e0249130 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0249130 ...