A deer rib pulled from an ancient butchery site in central China carried an unexpected clue. Inside the bone, calcite ...

Crystals inside a prehistoric bone rewrote scientists’ estimates of the age of the archaeological site, suggesting that the ...

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

The stone tools were found at the Lingjing archaeological site in central China. An early human species called Homo juluensis ...

Ice Age tools dating back 146,000 years, discovered in an ancient Chinese cave, reveal surprising human adaptations to a ...

“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 ...

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A new study has revealed that Neanderthals possessed an unexpected and highly durable tool in their kits: the teeth of prehistoric rhinoceroses. Marks found on fossilized rhino teeth discovered in ...

When people imagine the earliest human tools, they usually picture weapons. Stone handaxes, sharpened spears and heavy clubs ...

Archaeologists have uncovered sophisticated stone tools in central China crafted by Homo juluensis during a harsh ice age 146,000 years ago, challenging long-held views that innovation flourished ...

This has been quite the wild year in human evolution stories. Our relatives, living and extinct, got a lot of attention—from new developments in ape cognition to an expanded perspective of a ...