Discovery of complex pre-historic tools in China suggests our ancestors were far more advanced than thought - Find suggests ...

Archaeologists have found the oldest known evidence of hafted tools in East Asia, and they challenge a previously held ...

Archaeologists have found the oldest-known surviving examples of handheld wooden tools.

A newly excavated archaeological site in central China is reshaping long-held assumptions about early hominin behavior in ...

Team says discovery of 2,600 stone tools, including hafted tools, reshapes understanding of human evolution in eastern Asia ...

The ancestors of humans started making tools about 3.3 million years ago. First they made them out of stone, then they switched to bone as a raw material. Until recently, the earliest clear evidence ...

Our prehistoric human ancestors relied on deliberately modified and sharpened stone tools as early as 3.3 million years ago.

Ancient tools from central China are flipping the script, revealing early humans were far more innovative than history once gave them credit for.

Learn how archaeologists dated stone tools from central China and what they reveal about when early humans in Asia began using complex tools.

WASHINGTON (Nov. 4, 2025)--Imagine early humans meticulously crafting stone tools for nearly 300,000 years, all while contending with recurring wildfires, droughts, and dramatic environmental shifts.

ANTH copy has bookplate: Smithsonian Institution Libraries, Gift from the Margery Masinter Foundation Endowment for Illustrated Books. "In Stone Tools in Human Evolution, John J. Shea argues that over ...

Sharp stone technology chipped over three million years allowed early humans to exploit animal and plant food resources. But how did the production of stone tools -- called 'knapping' -- start?