Old beliefs about early human behavior in East Asia are being challenged by the discovery of a richly-layered archaeological site located in central China. The excavation project at Xigou, led by the ...

Building the human story based on a few artefacts is tricky – particularly for wooden tools that don’t preserve well, or cave ...

Human-made ivory and stone tools have been found in a 14,000-year-old layer of Alaskan earth, providing evidence of some of ...

Archaeologists in central China have uncovered evidence that early humans were far more inventive than long assumed. Excavations at the Xigou site reveal advanced stone tools, including the earliest ...

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 ...

Microblade cores found at the Xinmiaozhuang site in Zhangjiakou, Hebei province. WANG FAGANG/FOR CHINA DAILY Chinese archaeologists have discovered evidence of a pivotal stone tool technology dating ...

Early humans in central China may have been making sophisticated stone tools as early as 160,000 years ago, according to research published in Nature Communications. This discovery challenges the ...

Researchers have identified what may be the earliest known metal drill from ancient Egypt-and it was hidden in plain sight.

In the shadow of a coal mine in southern Greece, archaeologists discovered the oldest known handheld wooden tools ever found.

The tools were uncovered at the Nyayanga archaeological site near Lake Victoria. Between 2014 and 2022, excavations revealed more than 300 stone tools made mostly from quartz and rhyolite. These ...

Featuring ancient ruins spanning from the Paleolithic Age to the Tang Dynasty (618-907), six sites were revealed by the ...