Tools were once thought to have arisen out of Africa and Europe, then spread eastward. New findings challenge that assumption ...

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 most obvious possibility is that Neanderthals themselves reached China. Neanderthals are well documented in Europe, going ...

Archaeologists in China’s Yunnan province unearthed stone tools crafted in a style associated with Neanderthals that hasn’t ...

Researchers in China have uncovered 55,000-year-old advanced tools, suggesting an unknown human species matched Neanderthal ...

Hélène Monod, from Universidad Rovira i Virgili in Spain, looked at our Quina scrapers under the microscope and found traces on them from scraping and scratching bones, antlers and wood. She also ...

Archaeologists in China have found stone technology previously thought to have been used by Neanderthals in Europe, ...

Chimps apply engineering skills to select tools with the right characteristic for hunting termites. This can teach us more ...

The tool set unearthed at Longtan in 2019 and 2020 include scrapers, used to work hides or wood with one sharp side, stone points that might have been attached to wooden spears, and tools that had ...

Researchers found European-style Quina tools in China, dating back 55,000 years, challenging the view that East Asia’s Middle ...