Discovery in China of tools called Quina scrapers suggests the people of East Asia were as inventive and flexible with ...

Use precise geolocation data and actively scan device characteristics for identification. This is done to store and access ...

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

While the Middle Paleolithic period is viewed as a dynamic time in European and African history, it is commonly considered a ...

Before hominins intentionally chipped stone to make tools, they likely used sharp rocks already shaped by natural forces.

Artifacts found at a river valley site called Longtan in southern China include distinctive stone cutting and scraping ...

The researchers suggested that only after using naturally sharp stones for cutting did ancient humans faced selective ...

But how did the production of stone tools -- called 'knapping' -- start? Researchers have proposed a new hypothesis for the origin of stone technology in human evolution. Sharp stone technology ...

But how did the production of stone tools—called "knapping"—start? "I don't think it was a 'Eureka!' moment whereby hominins ...

The bone tools were created the same way tools were made from stone.

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.

According to a report by The Baltimore Banner, a team of volunteers and archaeologists from the Maryland Historical Trust ...