Previously, the use of ivory was thought to date back about 120,000 years. But a new study, published in the International ...

Researchers from the University of Washington excavating a site in China have found Neanderthal tools dating back almost ...

A new full-body reconstruction depicts a warrior wearing armor and holding weapons, all of which were found in a ...

Archaeologists have discovered stone tools from the Middle Palaeolithic era in China, challenging the current understanding ...

US officials have told European allies they want them to keep buying American-made arms, amid recent moves by the European Union to limit US manufacturers’ participation in weapons tenders ...

Credit: Qi-Jun Ruan et. al / PNAS A groundbreaking discovery in southwest China has revealed that an unknown early human species was using advanced tools once thought to be unique to Neanderthals in ...

Archaeologists have discovered stone tools in China that could rewrite our understanding of human evolution in East Asia. The Quina technology, previously only found in Europe and associated with ...

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.

Stone tool-making system found in Europe never before been found in East Asia (Ben Marwick et al., PNAS (2025) via phys.org) ...

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