Humans were manipulating wood to make tools 40,000 years earlier than we had previously thought. Researchers discovered two tools—one made of alder and the other of either willow or poplar—from ...

Scientists in China discovered that ancient humans were making surprisingly advanced stone tools during a harsh ice age ...

“The calcite crystals inside the bone acted like a natural clock, allowing us to refine the age of the site,” Zhao explained. Previously, researchers thought that the tools found in Lingjing were ...

Archaeologists in central China have uncovered sophisticated 146,000-year-old stone tools made by the extinct human species Homo juluensis during a harsh ice age. The find challenges long-held ...

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 ...

A decline in ancient megafauna in the Middle East coincided with a shift towards smaller, lighter toolkits in the ...

For decades, textbooks painted a dramatic picture of early humans as tool-using hunters who rose quickly to the top of the food chain. The tale was that Homo habilis, one of the earliest ...

Stephen has degrees in science (Physics major) and arts (English Literature and the History and Philosophy of Science), as well as a Graduate Diploma in Science Communication. Stephen has degrees in ...

(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.