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

Old beliefs about early human behavior in East Asia are being challenged by the discovery of a richly-layered archaeological ...

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 ...

WASHINGTON — Early human ancestors during the Old Stone Age were more picky about the rocks they used for making tools than previously known, according to research published Friday. Not only did these ...

Adam Brumm receives funding from the Australian Research Council. Basran Burhan is a researcher at Pusat Kolaborasi Riset Arkeologi Sulawesi (BRIN-Universitas Hasanuddin). Gerrit (Gert) van den Bergh ...

Early humans in England used elephant bone to sharpen stone tools, revealing advanced planning, material knowledge, and ...

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

Ancient human relatives moved diverse stones over substantial distances, researchers report, revealing a surprisingly high degree of forward planning 600,000 years earlier than experts previously ...

The Quina technology discovered in East Asia was a set of stone tools for making other tools. Prehistoric sites in Europe that host similar tools are associated with Neanderthals. Ben Marwick During ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) At first glance, it might seem impossible to decipher. But as an experimental ...

Stone tools dating to at least 1.04 million years ago have been found on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi. This means early hominins made a major sea crossing from the Asian mainland much earlier ...