Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The artifacts found at Longtan, southwest China, were as old as 60,000 years. Qijun Ruan New technologies today often involve ...

"Stone Tools in the Paleolithic and Neolithic Near East: A Guide surveys the lithic record for the East Mediterranean Levant (Lebanon, Syria, Israel, Jordan, and adjacent territories) from the ...

Thousands of stone tools discovered in a South African cave reveal that Ice Age humans had developed sophisticated fabrication techniques about 20,000 years ago, according to a report in the Journal ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The discovery of stone tools at the Longtan site in China's Yunnan province suggests the region may once have been home to ...

Somewhere around 300,000 years ago, our human ancestors in parts of Africa began to make small, sharp tools, using stone flakes that they created using a technique called Levallois. The technology, ...

Chinese scientists’ recent research suggests that early humans in Central China may have begun using hafted stone tools and other significant technological innovations between about 160,000 and 70,000 ...

A new analysis of stone tools offers strong evidence for the theory that ancient people from the Pacific Rim traveled a coastal route from East Asia during the last ice age to become North America's ...

(CNN) — Stone tools unearthed in southwest China helped a mysterious group eke out a living in a cold and harsh environment 60,000 to 50,000 years ago. But whose hands shaped them? The answer could ...

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