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Stone Scrapers Found in China Shift Ideas on Paleolithic Tool Development
Tools were once thought to have arisen out of Africa and Europe, then spread eastward. New findings challenge that assumption ...
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 ...
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Queen of the Stone Age: World's oldest, curviest sculpture gets a rare showing in Czechia
The famed ceramic treasure, crafted around 32,000 years ago during the Paleolithic period, will be seen 'out of the box' for ...
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 ...
Discovery of Quina technology challenges view of ancient human development in East Asia
While the Middle Paleolithic period is viewed as a dynamic time in European and African history, it is commonly considered a ...
Mysterious ‘oldest ever’ 200,000-year-old rock carvings are found in Spanish cave – and they could rewrite human history
ANCIENT rock carvings etched over 200,000 years ago could be the oldest ever uncovered, archaeologists believe. The exciting ...
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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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Stone tool discovery in China shows people in East Asia were innovating during the Middle Paleolithic, like in Europe and Middle East
new kinds of stone tools that were smaller but could be used for many tasks and lasted for a long time. Archaeologists like me are interested in the Middle Paleolithic – a period spanning ...
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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 humans’ neighbors, new technologies meant something quite different: new kinds of stone tools ... a period spanning 250,000 to ...