Our prehistoric human ancestors relied on deliberately modified and sharpened stone tools as early as 3.3 million years ago.

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

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

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 ...

"Researchers have argued for decades that while hominins in Africa and western Europe demonstrated significant technological ...

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

Oldowan stone tools made from a variety of raw materials sourced more than six miles away from where they were found in southwestern Kenya. In southwestern Kenya more than 2.6 million years ago, ...

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