Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The artifacts found at Longtan, southwest China, were as old as 60,000 years. Qijun Ruan New technologies today often involve ...

A team of archaeologists from the Universitat Jaume I, the University of Barcelona, and the Catalan Institution for Research ...

The increase in the productivity of stone tool cutting-edge (shown in white lines) did not occur before or at the beginning of Homo sapiens’ wide dispersals in Eurasia but subsequently occurred after ...

A multidisciplinary study led by researchers from the Institute of Tibetan Plateau Research of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) has uncovered the first definitive evidence of Middle Paleolithic ...

A fragment of elephant bone used to sharpen stone axes nearly half a million years ago has been identified as the oldest elephant bone tool ever found in Europe. The 480,000-year-old object, shaped ...