Near a Chinese lake, archaeologists have uncovered artifacts that challenge our understanding of prehistoric techniques. These exceptionally well-preserved objects demonstrate ingenious adaptation ...

TEHRAN - In a landmark announcement during the 47th session of the UNESCO World Heritage Committee on Friday, in Paris, the ...

Sharjah’s Faya Palaeolandscape gains UNESCO World Heritage status, honoring 210,000 years of human resilience and ...

Learn more about the colorful and shiny stones that were turned into tools as many as 40,000 years ago, which were sometimes ...

International research team from the University of Tübingen and the Senckenberg Nature Research Society finds early humans in ...

A multidisciplinary research team has announced the discovery of 300,000-year-old well-preserved wooden artifacts at the ...

Recent discoveries from a cave in present-day Germany suggest that Neanderthals and modern humans shared European landscapes ...

A multidisciplinary research team has announced the discovery of 300,000-year-old well-preserved wooden artifacts at the ...

A new study from SapienCE reveals that early modern humans at Blombos Cave in South Africa used ochre as a specialized tool ...

The Middle Paleolithic, or Middle Stone Age, which lasted from around 300,000 to 40,000 years ago, was a critical period in human evolution.

During the Middle Paleolithic—a period spanning about 40,000 to 300,000 years ago, also called the Middle Stone Age—groups such as modern humans, Neanderthals and Denisovans emerged and began ...

Stone Scrapers Found in China Shift Ideas on Paleolithic Tool Development Tools were once thought to have arisen out of Africa and Europe, then spread eastward. New findings challenge that assumption.