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

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 Africa ...

Blade flakes were "pre-forms" that could be fashioned into knives, hide scrapers, spear tips, drills, and other tools. This artifact was used for scraping fur from animal hides. For European and ...