16:38, Sun, Dec 27, 2020 Updated: 16:38, Sun, Dec 27, 2020 Archaeologists believe the seemingly inconspicuous rock predates the earliest known usage of such tools by some 150,000 years. The discovery ...

The hand-held grinding tools used to process cereals that the first European Neolithic societies buried in deposits had a high symbolic value for the women who used them, related to time and the ...

A 35,000-year-old stone ax discovered in northern Australia is the oldest known tool with ground edges, researchers reported on Saturday (Nov. 6). Humans' hominid ancestors have been using stone tools ...

Archaeologists with the Colorado State University (CSU) Center for Environmental Management of Military Lands (CEMML) were investigating an archaeological site near the North Flowage when they ...

A recent study conducted by researchers from the Autonomous University of Barcelona (UAB) has revealed the profound symbolic significance of grinding tools used by the first Neolithic societies of ...

CHENNAI:Thirugai (rolling stone grinder), seva nazhi (idiyappam maker), ammi and attukal (stone grinders). These are names of age-old equipment used in our ancestral kitchens. Remember those days when ...