Researchers found European-style Quina tools in China, dating back 55,000 years, challenging the view that East Asia’s Middle ...

Tools were once thought to have arisen out of Africa and Europe, then spread eastward. New findings challenge that assumption ...

New technologies today often involve electronic devices that are smaller and smarter than before. During the Middle Paleolithic, when Neanderthals were modern humans' neighbors, new technologies meant ...

Neanderthal-like stone tools, made using the Quina method, have been discovered in China, challenging the conventional ...

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

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. At such a critical ...

Archaeologists have thought that ancient people in East Asia completely skipped the Middle Paleolithic. Our discovery challenges the long-standing notion that while ancient people in Europe and Africa ...

The tool we've identified is called a Quina scraper. This type of stone tool is well known from archaeological sites in ...