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

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 ...

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 ...

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

An ancient quarry site in Newton County offers evidence that humans removed chert for stone tools, spear points and arrow points from bedrock centuries earlier than archaeologists ...

When Japanese scientists wanted to learn more about how ground stone tools dating back to the Early Upper Paleolithic might have been used, they decided to build their own replicas of adzes, axes, and ...

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Early humans in England used elephant bone to sharpen stone tools, revealing advanced planning, material knowledge, and ...

Archaeologists have uncovered primitive sharp-edged stone tools on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi, adding another piece to an evolutionary puzzle involving mysterious ancient humans who lived in a ...

Oldowan stone tools made from a variety of raw materials sourced more than six miles away from where they were found in southwestern Kenya. In southwestern Kenya more than 2.6 million years ago, ...