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 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 ...

In a time long before cities, farms, or even written words, early humans across the Levant were already shaping a complex story of connection, identity, and cultural exchange. Between 130,000 and ...

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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 ...