Old beliefs about early human behavior in East Asia are being challenged by the discovery of a richly-layered archaeological site located in central China. The excavation project at Xigou, led by the ...

Building the human story based on a few artefacts is tricky – particularly for wooden tools that don’t preserve well, or cave ...

Human-made ivory and stone tools have been found in a 14,000-year-old layer of Alaskan earth, providing evidence of some of ...

A newly excavated archaeological site in central China is reshaping long-held assumptions about early hominin behavior in Eastern Asia. Led by the Chinese Academy of Sciences, an international team of ...

Microblade cores found at the Xinmiaozhuang site in Zhangjiakou, Hebei province. WANG FAGANG/FOR CHINA DAILY Chinese archaeologists have discovered evidence of a pivotal stone tool technology dating ...

Early humans in central China may have been making sophisticated stone tools as early as 160,000 years ago, according to research published in Nature Communications. This discovery challenges the ...

Researchers have identified what may be the earliest known metal drill from ancient Egypt-and it was hidden in plain sight.

The tools were uncovered at the Nyayanga archaeological site near Lake Victoria. Between 2014 and 2022, excavations revealed more than 300 stone tools made mostly from quartz and rhyolite. These ...

Chinese scientists' recent research suggests that early humans in Central China may have begun using hafted stone tools and other significant technological innovations between about 160,000 and 70,000 ...

Archaeologists have found that early humans in what is now China were using sophisticated stone tools as far back as 160,000 years ago. "This discovery challenges the perception that stone tool ...