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

Tools dating back 55,000 years, similar to those of Neanderthals, have just been identified in China. This discovery ...

Neanderthals could have migrated east and reached what’s now China, or a different species of ancient human possibly made stone tools uncannily similar to those being made in Europe during this period ...

Artifacts found at a river valley site called Longtan in southern China include distinctive stone cutting and scraping implements, as well as the rocks from which these items were struck.

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 ...

Keliang Zhao from China’s Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology looked at pollen grains from the Longtan excavations. He found that the Middle Paleolithic people of Longtan ...

Keliang Zhao from China's Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology looked at pollen grains from the Longtan excavations. He found that the Middle Paleolithic people of Longtan ...

Credit: Pei-Yuan Xiao In our study just published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, a team of international collaborators and I describe our discovery in China of the first ...