Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The artifacts found at Longtan, southwest China, were as old as 60,000 years. Qijun Ruan New technologies today often involve ...

A new study from Tel Aviv University identified the earliest appearance worldwide of special stone tools, used 400,000 years ago to process fallow deer. The tools, called Quina scrapers (after the ...

Tools were once thought to have arisen out of Africa and Europe, then spread eastward. New findings challenge that assumption. Archeological evidence has indicated that early humans fabricated tools ...

Artifacts found at a river valley site called Longtan in southern China include distinctive stone cutting and scraping implements, as well as the rocks from which these items were struck. A discovery ...

Among 500,000-year-old elephant remains at a Lower Paleolithic site in Revadim, Israel, archaeologists recently analyzed 'hand axes' and 'scrapers,' universally shaped and sized prehistoric stone ...

Tel Aviv University researchers have identified a group of prehistoric stone tools discovered in central Israel as 400,000-year-old implements designed for butchering and processing fallow deer, the ...

The unique stone tools were made of flint from the Mountains of Samaria, which were probably also the fallow deers' calving areas, located east of the prehistoric sites of Jaljulia and Qesem Cave.

New technologies today often involve electronic devices that are smaller and smarter than before. During the Middle Paleolithic, when Neanderthals were modern humans’ neighbors, new technologies meant ...

New technologies today often involve electronic devices that are smaller and smarter than before. During the Middle Paleolithic, when Neanderthals were modern humans' neighbors, new technologies meant ...