But those experts may have a surprising new answer thanks to research that shows the ancient people of the Philippines and ...

A mammoth ivory tool unearthed in central ... The researchers conducted rope-making experiments with four-holed replicas of the ancient finds made from wood, animal bones, a warthog’s split ...

Archaeological research is increasingly focusing on teeth to reveal insights into ancient lives. Dental analysis uncovers ...

plus one to hold the tool and move it along the strands, so four or five in total. They were able to make 5 metres of rope in around 10 minutes. Experienced ropemakers would have done much better ...

Technological advancements in the past decade have now made it possible to date the oldest of the tools to about 20,000 years ...

To see if these tools had been used to make textiles ... construction may have been overlooked if rope making wasn’t considered part of the ancient inhabitants’ toolkit.

“You can make about 5 meters (16 feet) of rope in about 10 minutes after you get used to using the system.” The replica tool worked best by feeding “bundles of cattail leaves through the ...

In a new twist on Neandertals’ Stone Age accomplishments, our close evolutionary relatives wound bark fibers into strings that could have been used to make clothes, rope, nets and other ...

To study how ancient humans used their hands ... a requirement to being able to make tools. "They were likely walking on two feet and using their hands to manipulate objects or tools, but also ...

Archaeologists have, for the first time, identified what seem to be tools used by the ancient Maya for tattooing 1. The civilization of the ancient Maya, who lived in what is now Mexico and ...