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

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 using complex tools.

Stone tools from central China dated to 160,000 years ago show early hafting, planning and skill, reshaping views of East ...

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 ...

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

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

Tool-assisted foraging may have been the impetus for the earliest beginning of the evolution of cumulative culture. Early hominins, 3.4 to 2 million years ago, likely relied on foraging strategies ...

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 ...

Sara Watson works for the FIeld Museum of Natural History and Indiana State University The Earth of the last Ice Age (about 26,000 to 19,000 years ago) was very different from today’s world. In the ...