During the Middle Paleolithic—a period spanning about 40,000 to 300,000 years ago, also called the Middle Stone Age—groups ...

Discovery in China of tools called Quina scrapers suggests the people of East Asia were as inventive and flexible with ...

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

Before hominins intentionally chipped stone to make tools, they likely used sharp rocks already shaped by natural forces.

Artifacts found at a river valley site called Longtan in southern China include distinctive stone cutting and scraping ...

Sharp stone technology chipped over three million years allowed early humans to exploit animal and plant food resources. But how did the production of stone tools -- called 'knapping' -- start?

Researchers extract plant residues from ancient bedrock metates, revealing insights into early diets and traditional plant ...

Early in Kanzi’s training, he invented his own technique for making stone tools, throwing a flint cobble against a hard tile floor to remove larger flakes. He would then use the flakes to cut a ...

Artifacts at Kach Kouch reveal stable agricultural settlements in mediterranean africa over 3,000 years ago.