The most obvious possibility is that Neanderthals themselves reached China. Neanderthals are well documented in Europe, going ...

Our ancestors’ ability to recognize water sources was crucial to their survival. As a result, the attraction to lustrous materials is deeply rooted in our evolutionary history and is evident among ...

A multidisciplinary study led by researchers from the Institute of Tibetan Plateau Research of the Chinese Academy of ...

The Iranian western city of Kermanshah is considered one of the cradles of prehistoric cultures, because of its antiquity, attractive landscapes, rich culture, and Neolithic villages.

I was fortunate to have traveled America’s blue highways in the golden age of roadside attractions. The year I fell in love ...

Archaeologists previously assumed that East Asia did not see considerable tool development during the Middle Paleolithic, but ...

Archaeologists in China’s Yunnan province unearthed stone tools crafted in a style associated with Neanderthals that hasn’t ...

A team of archeologists in South Africa had to climb to new heights to find an important set of tools made by humans about 20 ...

During the Middle Paleolithic, when Neanderthals were modern humans' neighbors, new technologies meant something quite different: new kinds of stone tools that were smaller but could be used for many ...

The tool we've identified is called a Quina scraper. This type of stone tool is well known from archaeological sites in ...