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

They once thought their appearance was revolutionary. But more recent findings show that stone age technology developed and spread more slowly. The stone scraper — thick, asymmetrical, and with a ...

Artefacts unearthed in Yunnan province display key features of toolmaking technology associated with Neanderthals much ...

We know this from tiny scratches and chips on the scrapers that match traces caused by working these materials in experiments using contemporary stone tools. European archaeologists believe that ...

Stone tools unearthed in China's Yunnan province suggest Neanderthals or another ancient human species adapted to harsh ...

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

A style of primitive stone tools named for the French site where they were first discovered have shown up half a world away.

Ben Marwick During the Middle Paleolithic—a period spanning about 40,000 to 300,000 years ago, also called the Middle Stone Age—groups such as modern humans, Neanderthals and Denisovans ...

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

The answer could shake up what’s known about human origins during this period of the Stone Age, according to new ... at Longtan in 2019 and 2020 include scrapers, used to work hides or wood ...