What’s commonly considered an ice axe is actually a mountaineering axe. It has a longer shaft than an ice tool, and a spike on the bottom that’s used for plunging the tool into snow and ice to give ...

Ever been walking through the woods and had that impulse to chop up a fallen log, measure each piece, scrape off the untidy bits, fix them together with nails, nuts and bolts and then crack open a ...

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). Subscribe to read this story ad-free Get unlimited ...

A fragment of elephant bone used to sharpen stone axes nearly half a million years ago has been identified as the oldest elephant bone tool ever found in Europe. The 480,000-year-old object, shaped ...