Rare hand axes from the Sakhnin Valley show Homo erectus picked fossil- and crystal-rich stones for visual appeal, hinting at ...

Mu'taz Shalatta and Prof. Ran Barkai in the Sakhnin Valley. Overview• Hundreds of handaxes dating back hundreds of thousands ...

Learn about prehistoric flint resources and tools at a free flintknapping demonstration on March 28..

Wells McComas VFW Post No. 2678 opened a new Veterans Memorial Park last November to honor veterans and the military history ...

Wells McComas VFW Post No. 2678 opened a new Veterans Memorial Park last November to honor veterans and the military history ...

An ancient elephant bone hammer from southern England reveals that early humans used rare materials to precisely sharpen stone tools, highlighting unexpected technological sophistication 500,000 years ...

Adam Chanthasit performed a flint knapping demonstration at Homeless Books in Wapakoneta on Sunday. WAPAKONETA — Wapakoneta native Adam Chanthasit performed a flint knapping demonstration at Homeless ...

(RNS) — This February marks the 50th anniversary of the national commemoration of Black History Month, proclaimed by President Gerald Ford in 1976 as part of the bicentennial celebrations. But Black ...

“If a race has no history, if it has no worthwhile tradition, it becomes a negligible factor in the thought of the world, and it stands in danger of being exterminated,” wrote Carter G. Woodson in a ...

I recently interviewed Jarvis R. Givens, a professor of education and African and African American studies at Harvard University. His new book, I’ll Make Me a World: The 100-Year Journey of Black ...

Throughout his career, historian Carter G. Woodson, AB’1908, AM’1908, worked to change how Americans thought about Black history. The University of Chicago alum began that mission when, in February ...

Scientists found the oldest known elephant bone tool in Europe at a site in the United Kingdom where elephant remains are scarce. The 500,000-year-old tool was used for knapping, or breaking flint and ...