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

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

"Researchers have argued for decades that while hominins in Africa and western Europe demonstrated significant technological ...

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

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 ...

Ancient tools from central China are flipping the script, revealing early humans were far more innovative than history once gave them credit for.

Used by our early human ancestors around 430,000 years ago, the earliest known hand-held wooden tools have been uncovered by ...

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 ...

What was it going to do to be settled in islands never united by land, without reliable boats, ropes and a plan to go back?

The earliest known hand-held wooden tools have been uncovered by researchers at an archeological site in Greece.