In 2018, scientists announced the discovery of stone tools at Ain Boucherit, Algeria, dated to approximately 2.4 million years ago. The find shocked the world, as it predates many similar tools from ...

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 ...

A newly excavated archaeological site in central China is reshaping long-held assumptions about early hominin behavior in Eastern Asia. Led by the Chinese Academy of Sciences, an international team of ...

The Earth of the last Ice Age (about 26,000 to 19,000 years ago) was very different from today’s world. In the northern hemisphere, ice sheets up to 8 kilometres tall covered much of Europe, Asia and ...

At a site in Kenya, archaeologists recently unearthed layer upon layer of stone stools from deposits that span 300,000 years, and include a period of intense environmental upheaval. The oldest tools ...

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?

New technologies today often involve electronic devices that are smaller and smarter than before. During the Middle Paleolithic, when Neanderthals were modern humans’ neighbors, new technologies meant ...