A surprising archaeological discovery in southwest China is shaking up what scientists thought they knew about ancient humans ...

This artifact was used for scraping fur from animal hides. For European and American Stone Age peoples, end scrapers served as heavy- duty scraping tools that could have been used on animal hides ...

Anthropologists care deeply about the Middle Stone Age — also known as the Middle Paleolithic ... These tools — thick, sharp-edged scrapers with repeated retouch marks — were long considered an ...

But more recent findings show that stone age technology developed and spread more slowly. The stone scraper - thick, asymmetrical, and with a sharp edge - represents the hallmark of the Quina system.

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

Archaeologists have unearthed stone tools in China that experts say have caused "big upset" to the way we think about East Asia during the Middle Stone Age. The tools, made by the Quina method, were ...

This artifact was used for scraping fur from animal hides. For European and American Stone Age peoples, end scrapers served as heavy- duty scraping tools that could have been used on animal hides ...

Come to the first human beings in Wales, this cave provided shelter for a group of hunter-gatherers 250,000 years ago. It was when the cave was being used as an ammunition dump during the war that ...