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

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

"Researchers have argued for decades that while hominins in Africa and western Europe demonstrated significant technological ...

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

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

Have you ever found yourself in a museum's gallery of human origins, staring at a glass case full of rocks labeled "stone tools," muttering under your breath, "How do they know it's not just any old ...

Our prehistoric human ancestors relied on deliberately modified and sharpened stone tools as early as 3.3 million years ago.

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 ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — 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 ...

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 ...