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 ...
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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 ...
Archaeologists unearthed a cache of stone tools. Neanderthals may have made them, study finds
Stone tools unearthed in China's Yunnan province suggest Neanderthals or another ancient human species adapted to harsh ...
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 ...
Quina scrapers discovered in southwest China reshape views on East Asian toolmaking
Artifacts found at a river valley site called Longtan in southern China include distinctive stone cutting and scraping ...
Unknown human species in East Asia used sophisticated tools at the same time Neanderthals did in Europe
The tool we've identified is called a Quina scraper. This type of stone tool is well known from archaeological sites in ...
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Discovery of Quina technology challenges view of ancient human development in East Asia
Researchers have uncovered a complete Quina technological system in the Longtan site in southwest China. The discovery challenges the widely held perception that the Middle Paleolithic period was ...
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.
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Unexpected Neanderthal discovery permanently rewrites human history
Paradigm-shattering discovery reveals that the relationship between early humans and Neanderthals was more complex than ...
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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 ...
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Humans aren’t the only animals with complex culture − but researchers point to one feature that makes ours unique
This process produces our uniquely complex cultures: Scientists call it cumulative cultural evolution. As an anthropologist, I study a different feature of human culture that researchers are ...