Our prehistoric human ancestors relied on deliberately modified and sharpened stone tools as early as 3.3 million years ago.

Researchers identified early handled tools that archeologists previously thought were not created in East Asia until ...

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

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

Learn how archaeologists dated stone tools from central China and what they reveal about when early humans in Asia began using complex tools.

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

Chinese scientists’ recent research suggests that early humans in Central China may have begun using hafted stone tools and ...

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, ...

Finds from Greece and Britain suggest early hominins were shaping wood and bone with far more intention and ingenuity than ...