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 ...

Early humans were living in a balmy Britain 200,000 years earlier than previously thought, say researchers who discovered a set of flint tools. Humans are known to have been present in southern Europe ...

A decline in ancient megafauna in the Middle East coincided with a shift towards smaller, lighter toolkits in the archaeological record – though scientists are still in debate about why ...

The stone tools were found at the Lingjing archaeological site in central China. An early human species called Homo juluensis ...

(CN) — Stone tools uncovered in central China suggest early humans there were far more inventive than scientists once believed, making complex tools tens of thousands of years earlier than expected.

Scientists in China discovered that ancient humans were making surprisingly advanced stone tools during a harsh ice age ...

Tiny crystals hidden inside an ancient bone forced scientists to redraw the timeline of a famous Homo juluensis tool site.

A newly excavated archaeological site in central China is reshaping long-held assumptions about early hominin behavior in Eastern Asia. Led by the Chinese Academy of Sciences, an international team of ...