Discovery in China of tools called Quina scrapers suggests the people of East Asia were as inventive and flexible with ...

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 ...

The tool we've identified is called a Quina scraper. This type of stone tool is well known from archaeological sites in ...

Archaeologists have thought that ancient people in East Asia completely skipped the Middle Paleolithic. Our discovery challenges the long-standing notion that while ancient people in Europe and ...