Old beliefs about early human behavior in East Asia are being challenged by the discovery of a richly-layered archaeological ...

The story of Xinmiaozhuang is one of persistent pursuit. The site was briefly excavated in 1986, yielding over 5,000 stone ...

At a site in Kenya, archaeologists recently unearthed layer upon layer of stone stools from deposits that span 300,000 years, and include a period of intense environmental upheaval. The oldest tools ...

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

Chinese scientists’ recent research suggests that early humans in Central China may have begun using hafted stone tools and ...

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

New technologies today often involve electronic devices that are smaller and smarter than before. During the Middle Paleolithic, when Neanderthals were modern humans’ neighbors, new technologies meant ...

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

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