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

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

The story of Xinmiaozhuang is one of persistent pursuit. The site was briefly excavated in 1986, yielding over 5,000 stone ...

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

(CNN) — Stone tools unearthed in southwest China helped a mysterious group eke out a living in a cold and harsh environment 60,000 to 50,000 years ago. But whose hands shaped them? The answer could ...

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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 ...

"Stone Tools in the Paleolithic and Neolithic Near East: A Guide surveys the lithic record for the East Mediterranean Levant (Lebanon, Syria, Israel, Jordan, and adjacent territories) from the ...