Archaeologists previously assumed that East Asia did not see considerable tool development during the Middle Paleolithic, but ...

Researchers from the University of Washington excavating a site in China have found Neanderthal tools dating back almost 55,000 years. Their findings were published March 31 in Proceedings of the ...

The research team determined many of the tools were crafted in the style known as Quina, which is typically regarded as an archaeological signature of Neanderthals, a species of ancient human. The ...

Archaeologists working in China found something they weren’t supposed to: stone tools that look exactly like those made by Neanderthals in Ice Age Europe. Buried in red clay at the Longtan site in ...

Archaeologists have discovered stone tools from the Middle Palaeolithic era in China, challenging the current understanding of human history. Archaeologists in southwestern China have discovered stone ...

Archaeologists in China have found stone technology previously thought to have been used by Neanderthals in Europe, challenging our understanding of human evolution in East Asia. The Quina method of ...

The research team determined many of the tools were crafted in the style known as Quina, which is typically regarded as an archaeological signature of Neanderthals, a species of ancient human.

Quina is one of a number of stone tool styles associated with Neanderthals that archaeologists call Mousterian culture.The unprecedented discovery at Longtan had "significant implications ...