Discovery in China of tools called Quina scrapers suggests the people of East Asia were as inventive and flexible with ...
Archaeologists in China have found stone technology previously thought to have been used by Neanderthals in Europe, ...
Before hominins intentionally chipped stone to make tools, they likely used sharp rocks already shaped by natural forces.
Sharp stone technology chipped over three million years allowed early humans to exploit animal and plant food resources. But how did the production of stone tools -- called 'knapping' -- start?
The bone tools were created the same way tools were made from stone.
The researchers suggested that only after using naturally sharp stones for cutting did ancient humans faced selective ...
A cache of 1.5 million-year-old bone tools uncovered in Tanzania suggest ancient human ancestors were capable of critical thinking and advanced craftsmanship.
Artifacts found at a river valley site called Longtan in southern China include distinctive stone cutting and scraping ...
According to a report by The Baltimore Banner, a team of volunteers and archaeologists from the Maryland Historical Trust ...
The newly discovered bone tools, which consist of 27 deliberately split and chipped large mammal long bones, were recovered ...