Old beliefs about early human behavior in East Asia are being challenged by the discovery of a richly-layered archaeological ...

"Researchers have argued for decades that while hominins in Africa and western Europe demonstrated significant technological ...

An international team has discovered the earliest known hand-held wooden tools used by humans. A study jointly led by ...

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

ANTH copy has bookplate: Smithsonian Institution Libraries, Gift from the Margery Masinter Foundation Endowment for Illustrated Books. "In Stone Tools in Human Evolution, John J. Shea argues that over ...

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

Archaeologists in central China have uncovered evidence that early humans were far more inventive than long assumed. Excavations at the Xigou site reveal advanced stone tools, including the earliest ...

Researchers have found two wooden tools crafted and used by humans at a site some 430,000 years ago. One tool is made of ...

Sharp stone technology chipped over three million years allowed early humans to exploit animal and plant food resources. But how did the production of stone tools -- called 'knapping' -- start?

WASHINGTON (Nov. 4, 2025)--Imagine early humans meticulously crafting stone tools for nearly 300,000 years, all while contending with recurring wildfires, droughts, and dramatic environmental shifts.

Ancient tools from central China are flipping the script, revealing early humans were far more innovative than history once gave them credit for.

Oldowan stone tools made from a variety of raw materials sourced more than six miles away from where they were found in southwestern Kenya. In southwestern Kenya more than 2.6 million years ago, ...