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 ...
(CNN) — Stone tools unearthed in southwest China helped a mysterious group eke out a living in a cold and harsh environment 60,000 to 50,000 years ago. But whose hands shaped them? The answer could ...
Chinese scientists’ recent research suggests that early humans in Central China may have begun using hafted stone tools and ...
A research group led by the Nagoya University Museum and Graduate School of Environmental Studies in Japan has clarified differences in the physical characteristics of rocks used by early humans ...
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 ...
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480,000-year-old ax sharpener is oldest elephant bone tool ever found in Europe
A fragment of elephant bone used to sharpen stone axes nearly half a million years ago has been identified as the oldest ...
CORVALLIS, Ore – A new analysis of stone tools offers strong evidence for the theory that ancient people from the Pacific Rim traveled a coastal route from East Asia during the last ice age to become ...
The color blue is hard to come by. Unlike red, yellow, and white, which occur readily in mineral form, blue is a rarity. For prehistoric people living in western Eurasia, an area roughly covering ...
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