Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The artifacts found at Longtan, southwest China, were as old as 60,000 years. Qijun Ruan New technologies today often involve ...

Research suggests that Paleolithic humans in the Middle East selected flint for their cutting tools based on differences in the mechanical properties of the rock. They seem to have purposefully ...

"Stone Tools in the Paleolithic and Neolithic Near East: A Guide surveys the lithic record for the East Mediterranean Levant (Lebanon, Syria, Israel, Jordan, and adjacent territories) from the ...

The Stone Age was a prehistoric period that lasted more than 3 million years, from the point when human ancestors began using stone tools until the time we invented metalworking. Archaeologists often ...

A study reveals that the technological transition 200,000 years ago in the Near East was linked to the scarcity of megaherbivores such as elephants and rhinoceroses Approximately 300,000 years ago, ...

Tirupati: The discovery of ancient clay pots and stone tools in Bizinepalli village near Kambham in Prakasam district has ...

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 ...

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 ...