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

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

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

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

Researchers identified early handled tools that archeologists previously thought were not created in East Asia until ...

Human-made ivory and stone tools have been found in a 14,000-year-old layer of Alaskan earth, providing evidence of some of the first people to inhabit the Americas. The tools resemble those made by ...

Our prehistoric human ancestors relied on deliberately modified and sharpened stone tools as early as 3.3 million years ago. The selection of rock type depended on how easily the material could be ...

Oldowan stone tools made from a variety of raw materials sourced more than six miles away from where they were found in southwestern Kenya. In southwestern Kenya more than 2.6 million years ago, ...

Oldowan stone tools made from a variety of raw materials sourced more than 6 miles away from where they were found in southwestern Kenya. The development of the Oldowan toolkit made it possible for ...