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 ...

The reason is that even though handles might not last 160,000 years, the engineering decisions that led to their creation can ...

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 ...

The discovery at Xigou is not an isolated case. It joins a series of recent findings across China, such as evidence of prepared core technology, bone tool shaping, and pigment use at other sites, that ...

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

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

Researchers identified early handled tools that archeologists previously thought were not created in East Asia until ...

The Nyayanga excavation site in Kenya, in July 2025. Fossils and Oldowan tools have been excavated from the tan and reddish-brown sediments, which date to more than 2.6 million years old. T. W.

Our prehistoric human ancestors relied on deliberately modified and sharpened stone tools as early as 3.3 million years ago. The selection of rock type depended on how easily the material could be ...

OUR prehistoric human ancestors relied on deliberately modified and sharpened stone tools as early as 3.3 million years ago. The selection of rock type depended on how easily the material could be ...