A newly excavated archaeological site in central China is reshaping long-held assumptions about early hominin behavior in ...

Archaeologists have found the oldest known evidence of hafted tools in East Asia, and they challenge a previously held ...

The story of Xinmiaozhuang is one of persistent pursuit. The site was briefly excavated in 1986, yielding over 5,000 stone ...

Old beliefs about early human behavior in East Asia are being challenged by the discovery of a richly-layered archaeological site located in central China. The excavation project at Xigou, led by the ...

Ancient tools from central China are flipping the script, revealing early humans were far more innovative than history once gave them credit for.

Learn how archaeologists dated stone tools from central China and what they reveal about when early humans in Asia began ...

Archaeologists in central China have uncovered evidence that early humans were far more inventive than long assumed. Excavations at the Xigou site reveal advanced stone tools, including the earliest ...

New technologies today often involve electronic devices that are smaller and smarter than before. During the Middle Paleolithic, when Neanderthals were modern humans’ neighbors, new technologies meant ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Stone tools are deliberately made by the hands of hominins, like these worked on by the author. John K. Murray Have you ever found ...

Sara Watson works for the FIeld Museum of Natural History and Indiana State University The Earth of the last Ice Age (about 26,000 to 19,000 years ago) was very different from today’s world. In the ...