Ever had a headache so big, you felt like drilling a hole in your head to let the pain out? In Neolithic times, trepanation – or drilling a hole into the skull – was thought to be a cure for ...

Researchers have developed a method of sourcing obsidian artifacts that takes only 10 seconds -- dozens of times faster than the current methods -- with a handheld instrument that can be used at ...

Önder Bilgi talks about his discovery of a razor-sharp 4000-year-old scalpel and what it was originally used for At an early Bronze Age settlement called Ikiztepe, in the Black Sea province of Samsun ...

An archaeologist has revealed the origin and trading routes of razor-sharp stone tools 4,200 years ago in Syria. An archaeologist from the University of Sheffield has revealed the origin and trading ...

Trepanation -- the practice of cutting a hole in the skull -- was performed using obsidian tools by Neolithic cultures, although its purpose remains unknown. This skull in Lausanne Museum, in France, ...