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 ...

Egyptian craftspeople mastered reliable rotary drilling more than two millennia before some of the best-preserved drill sets.” ...

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

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

Netflix’s chief technology officer Elizabeth Stone is adding oversight of the streamer’s product team to her purview. In her new role as chief product and technology officer, Stone will lead the ...

Excavations in 2022 at the same site. WANG FAGANG/FOR CHINA DAILY Another striking discovery came in 2024 at Location 5, where archaeologists exposed what they call a "stone tool workshop". Over ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Reconstruction of Xigou tool-making. (CREDIT: Hulk Yuan) Old beliefs about early human behavior in East Asia are being challenged ...

Reconstruction of Xigou tool-making. Credit: Hulk Yuan / Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology Researchers in central China have uncovered stone tools that were deliberately ...

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. Two artifacts found at a lake shore in Greece are the oldest wooden tools to be uncovered so far and date back 430 ...

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 ...

Technological innovations in Africa and Western Europe in the later part of the Middle Pleistocene signal the behavioral complexity of hominin populations. Yet, at the same time, it has long been ...

In a groundbreaking find that pushes back our understanding of early human technology, archaeologists have unearthed the oldest wooden tools ever discovered in Greece—and worldwide—at the Marathousa 1 ...