Ancient stone tools found on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi represent the oldest evidence for humans living there 1 ...

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

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.

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, ...

Polished stone tools emerged during this period, mostly to grind grain, as man transitioned from a nomadic lifestyle to one of settlements.

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.

In pre-Neolithic graves, these items often consisted of stone tools, hematite (red ochre), and crystals. For the Neolithic burial, the grave goods included a stone bracelet, polished stone tools ...

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 ...

These stones do not have grooves caused during the rubbing of stone tools. The team found various items, including a grinder, pestle, etc., which were in use during the Neolithic period.