Old beliefs about early human behavior in East Asia are being challenged by the discovery of a richly-layered archaeological ...

Archaeologists have found the oldest known evidence of hafted tools in East Asia, and they challenge a previously held ...

Learn how archaeologists dated stone tools from central China and what they reveal about when early humans in Asia began ...

Early humans in England used elephant bone to sharpen stone tools, revealing advanced planning, material knowledge, and ...

A newly excavated archaeological site in central China is reshaping long-held assumptions about early hominin behavior in ...

Researchers identified early handled tools that archeologists previously thought were not created in East Asia until ...

When Japanese scientists wanted to learn more about how ground stone tools dating back to the Early Upper Paleolithic might have been used, they decided to build their own replicas of adzes, axes, and ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) At first glance, it might seem impossible to decipher. But as an experimental ...

Camera trap footage of a white-faced capuchin monkey from Isla Jicarón, Coiba National Park, Panama. Some groups of capuchins in the park have begun using stone tools, which may give insight into how ...