Articles by

Tom Metcalfe

This ancient stick may be the world’s oldest handheld wooden tool

A digging stick and a tiny tool of unknown purpose are among the oldest handheld wooden tools...

This hand stencil in Indonesia is now the oldest known rock art

A stencil made on a cave wall about 67,800 years ago is the oldest rock art ever...

This ancient pottery holds the earliest evidence of humans doing math

Plantlike designs on pottery made almost 8,000 years ago may be the earliest evidence yet of mathematical...

60,000-year-old poison arrowheads show early humans’ skillful hunting

A new analysis of ancient arrowheads from South Africa pushes back prehistoric humans’ earliest use of poisoned...

Big Neandertal noses weren’t made for cold

Proof that Neandertals hadn’t adapted to cold was right under their noses. Unique video from the naval...

12,000-year-old rock art hints at the Arabian Desert’s lush past

The camels at Jebel Misma have been frozen in a march for 12,000 years. “They are really...

Dinosaur teeth reveal some were picky eaters

Some dinosaurs were fussy eaters. Certain herbivorous dinosaurs preferred specific parts of plants, challenging long-standing assumptions about...

AI reveals new details about a famous Latin inscription

An artificial intelligence system has revealed fresh details about one of the most famous Latin inscriptions: the...