Old beliefs about early human behavior in East Asia are being challenged by the discovery of a richly-layered archaeological site located in central China. The excavation project at Xigou, led by the ...

Our prehistoric human ancestors relied on deliberately modified and sharpened stone tools as early as 3.3 million years ago. The selection of rock type depended on how easily the material could be ...

Archaeologists in central China have uncovered evidence that early humans were far more inventive than long assumed. Excavations at the Xigou site reveal advanced stone tools, including the earliest ...

Recent discoveries have suggested that tool-making, an indicator of intelligence, was practiced by pre-human species millions of years prior to the evolution of Homo sapiens. This revelation has the ...

Ailsa Chang speaks with David Braun, an archeologist, about his team's discovery of a site in Kenya that suggests human ancestors built tools continuously much earlier than previously thought. So when ...

(CN) — Stone tools uncovered in central China suggest early humans there were far more inventive than scientists once believed, making complex tools tens of thousands of years earlier than expected.

Early human ancestors during the Old Stone Age were more picky about the rocks they used for making tools than previously known, according to research published Friday. Not only did these early people ...

Evidence from a remote site on Sulawesi reveals that ancient human relatives crossed a deep ocean barrier more than a million years ago. The discovery extends the earliest known human movements in ...

A multidisciplinary team led by Chinese scientists recently made a significant archaeological discovery at the Gantangjing Paleolithic site in Yunnan province, southwestern China, unearthing 35 ...

More than a million years ago, early human relatives crossed an enormous sea to reach the Indonesian island of Sulawesi. The discovery pushes back the record of human migration in Southeast Asia and ...