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Stone Tools Discovered in China Resemble Neanderthal Technology Used in Europe, Creating a Middle Stone Age Mystery
During the Middle Paleolithic—a period spanning about 40,000 to 300,000 years ago, also called the Middle Stone Age—groups ...
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Turns Out Our Ancestors Were Artists 60,000 Years Before Cave Paintings
Recent research provides compelling evidence that Middle Paleolithic peoples created deliberate patterns on stone artifacts ...
Archaeologists unearthed a cache of stone tools. Neanderthals may have made them, study finds
Archaeologists in China’s Yunnan province unearthed stone tools crafted in a style associated with Neanderthals that hasn’t ...
Rewriting Human History: 110,000-Year-Old Discovery Suggests Neanderthals and Homo sapiens Worked Together
Neanderthals and Homo sapiens shared technology and customs in the Levant, shaping early human culture through cooperation.
Stone tool discovery shows people in East Asia were innovating during the Middle Paleolithic
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 ...
50,000-Year-Old Tools Found in China Could Point to Unknown Human Ancestor
Researchers found European-style Quina tools in China, dating back 55,000 years, challenging the view that East Asia’s Middle ...
Definitive evidence of Neanderthal-linked Quina technology uncovered in China’s Yunnan
The first definitive evidence of Middle Paleolithic Quina technology in East Asia has been uncovered in the Longtan site in ...
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Archaeologists unearthed a cache of stone tools. Neanderthals may have made them, study finds
Quina is one of a number of stone tool styles associated with Neanderthals that archaeologists call Mousterian culture ... this period known as the Middle Paleolithic. The tool set unearthed ...
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Stone tool discovery in China shows people in East Asia were innovating during the Middle Paleolithic, like in Europe and Middle East
During the Middle Paleolithic, when Neanderthals were modern ... Research and Qijun Ruan of the Yunnan Provincial Institute of Cultural Relics and Archaeology, excavated Quina scrapers and related ...