Archaeologists in China’s Yunnan province unearthed stone tools crafted in a style associated with Neanderthals that hasn’t ...

The tool we've identified is called a Quina scraper. This type of stone tool is well known from archaeological sites in ...

Archaeologists in China have found stone technology previously thought to have been used by Neanderthals in Europe, ...

Discovery in China of tools called Quina scrapers suggests the people of East Asia were as inventive and flexible with ...

Before hominins intentionally chipped stone to make tools, they likely used sharp rocks already shaped by natural forces.

Kanzi the bonobo, who learned how to communicate with humans using symbols, has died at the age of 44. Raised and kept in ...

But how did the production of stone tools—called "knapping"—start? "I don't think it was a 'Eureka!' moment whereby hominins ...

A style of primitive stone tools named for the French site where they were first discovered have shown up half a world away.

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 ...

Stone tools are considered the first form of technology devised by ancient humans – but they might not have been invented ...