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

The research team determined many of the tools were crafted in the style known as Quina, which is typically regarded as an archaeological signature of Neanderthals, a species of ancient human.

Neanderthals were consummate hunters of ... Composite technology: Refers to tools and weapons that consist of several parts, such as stone points hafted to a wooden shaft. Cursorial: An animal ...

Archaeologists are perplexed how tools known to have been used by Neanderthals in Europe arrived in East Asia. They are unsure if the technology was introduced in the region by people coming from ...

Archaeologists in the Iberian Peninsula have discovered a 65,000-year-old tar-making "factory" engineered by Neanderthals — a feat pulled off 20,000 years before modern humans (Homo sapiens) set ...

Scientists already knew that Neanderthals made adhesives using other materials like ocher and naturally sticky substances to haft stone tips onto wooden shafts to create weapons. The newly ...

Archaeologists in China have found stone technology previously thought to have been used by Neanderthals in Europe, challenging our understanding of human evolution in East Asia. The Quina method of ...