When Japanese scientists wanted to learn more about how ground stone tools dating back to the Early Upper Paleolithic might have been used, they decided to build their own replicas of adzes, axes, and ...

Ancient wooden tools found at a site in Gantangqing in southwestern China are approximately 300,000 years old, new dating has shown. Discovered during excavations carried out in 2014–15 and 2018–19, ...

“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 ...

The Stone Age was a prehistoric period that lasted more than 3 million years, from the point when human ancestors began using stone tools until the time we invented metalworking. Archaeologists often ...

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A genetic study of a prehistoric burial site near Paris reveals a sharp break between two populations, suggesting a major ...