The SciencesJuly 1, 1992
The Last Stone Ax Makers
A chance encounter with a people living in New Guinea's highlands has given archaeologists a priceless opportunity to model prehistoric technology
Stories by Nicholas Toth
The SciencesApril 1, 1987
The First Technology
A young archaeologist re-creates a prehistoric flaked-stone technology in order to understand how our ancestors made and used early stone tools more than two million years ago