A newly excavated archaeological site in central China is reshaping long-held assumptions about early hominin behavior in ...

Archaeologists in central China have uncovered evidence that early humans were far more inventive than long assumed. Excavations at the Xigou site reveal advanced stone tools, including the earliest ...

Archaeologists have found the oldest known evidence of hafted tools in East Asia, and they challenge a previously held ...

Ancient tools from central China are flipping the script, revealing early humans were far more innovative than history once gave them credit for.

Learn how archaeologists dated stone tools from central China and what they reveal about when early humans in Asia began ...

Our prehistoric human ancestors relied on deliberately modified and sharpened stone tools as early as 3.3 million years ago.

Chinese scientists’ recent research suggests that early humans in Central China may have begun using hafted stone tools and ...

New technologies today often involve electronic devices that are smaller and smarter than before. During the Middle Paleolithic, when Neanderthals were modern humans’ neighbors, new technologies meant ...

At a site in Kenya, archaeologists recently unearthed layer upon layer of stone stools from deposits that span 300,000 years, and include a period of intense environmental upheaval. The oldest tools ...