During the Middle Paleolithic—a period spanning about 40,000 to 300,000 years ago, also called the Middle Stone Age—groups ...

Archaeologists working in China found something they weren’t supposed to: stone tools that look exactly like those made by ...

The answer could shake up what’s known about human origins during this period of the Stone Age ... tools uncannily similar to those being made in Europe during this period known as the Middle ...

Stereotypical ‘Later Stone Age tools', for example, are now recognized in many Middle Stone Age assemblages (e.g., McBrearty & Brooks 2000). Thus, Periods are not strict aggregates of discrete ...

The Quina method of making stone tools had previously been found in Europe but never in East Asia. Now, though, scientists have found the Quina technology at an archaeological site in southwestern ...

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

While the Middle Paleolithic period is viewed as a dynamic time in European and African history, it is commonly considered a ...

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

Archaeologists in China have found stone technology previously thought to have been used by Neanderthals in Europe, ...