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

Archaeologists previously assumed that East Asia did not see considerable tool development during the Middle Paleolithic, but ...

Artefacts unearthed in Yunnan province display key features of toolmaking technology associated with Neanderthals much ...

Thousands of stone tools discovered in a South African cave reveal that Ice Age humans had developed sophisticated fabrication techniques about 20,000 years ago, according to a report in the Journal ...

Archaeologists in China’s Yunnan province unearthed stone tools crafted in a style associated with Neanderthals that hasn’t ...

The most obvious possibility is that Neanderthals themselves reached China. Neanderthals are well documented in Europe, going ...

In a cave overlooking the ocean on the southern coast of South Africa, archaeologists discovered thousands of stone tools, created by ancient humans roughly 20,000 years ago. By examining tiny details ...

A team of archeologists in South Africa had to climb to new heights to find an important set of tools made by humans about 20 ...

The answer could shake up what's known about human origins during this period of the Stone Age, according to new ... a postdoctoral fellow in Paleolithic archaeology at the University of Ferrara ...