A new study has shown that as early as the Stone Age, people in Africa traveled long distances to procure colorful stone, the ...

Newly uncovered wooden tools from Pleistocene China reveal complex, plant-focused technology far earlier than expected in East Asia. Researchers working at the Pleistocene-era Gantangqing site in ...

International research team from the University of Tübingen and the Senckenberg Nature Research Society finds early humans in ...

Learn more about the colorful and shiny stones that were turned into tools as many as 40,000 years ago, which were sometimes ...

A team of Chinese scientists has discovered wooden tools in Yunnan province dating back approximately 300,000 years, shedding ...

Recent research suggests that some of these genetic variants inherited from Neanderthals could be linked to autism spectrum ...

Researchers in China unveil the oldest complex wooden technology, pushing back the timeline for sophisticated tool use.

Pleistocene tools uncovered from the Gantangqing site in China are the oldest complex wooden technology ever discovered in ...

Ancient wooden tools found at a site in Gantangqing in southwestern China are approximately 300,000 years old, new dating has ...

Archeological evidence has indicated that early humans fabricated tools during the Middle Paleolithic period in Europe and Africa. East Asia, during that same time, was considered less advanced. A new ...

A collection of 27 1.5-million-year-old bone tools discovered in Tanzania shows early humans had an ability to systematically make tools about a million years earlier than scientists thought. The ...