A surprising archaeological discovery in southwest China is shaking up what scientists thought they knew about ancient humans ...

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

Archaeologists in China’s Yunnan province unearthed stone tools crafted in a style associated with Neanderthals that hasn’t ...

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

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 ...

Archeological evidence has indicated that early humans fabricated tools during the Middle Paleolithic period in Europe and Africa ... with various kinds of stone chips at its core — in southwest China ...

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 complete example of a ...