More than 40 years of scholarly life have accustomed 64-year-old Chinese archaeologist Li Zhanyang to documenting his career ...

The institute of cultural relics protection in Southwest China's Xizang Autonomous Region has announced progress has been ...

Artefacts unearthed in Yunnan province display key features of toolmaking technology associated with Neanderthals much ...

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

southwest China's Yunnan Province. A multidisciplinary team led by the Institute of Tibetan Plateau Research (ITP) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences conducted the study. The Middle Paleolithic period ...

Archaeologists previously assumed that East Asia did not see considerable tool development during the Middle Paleolithic, but new findings might change that widely held idea ...

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

Stone tools unearthed in China's Yunnan province suggest Neanderthals or another ancient human species adapted to harsh ...

"While we cannot yet confirm the presence of Neanderthals in China — who were responsible for the Middle Paleolithic (tools) in Europe and Central Asia — we know that their 'sister' species ...

Scientists from the University of Washington have discovered Quina tools in China dating back 50,000 years. The Paleolithic ...