A deer rib pulled from an ancient butchery site in central China carried an unexpected clue. Inside the bone, calcite ...
The increase in the productivity of stone tool cutting-edge (shown in white lines) did not occur before or at the beginning of Homo sapiens’ wide dispersals in Eurasia but subsequently occurred after ...
The first stone tools that ancient humans made were deceptively simple. At least 2.6 million years ago, our ancestors learned to strike stones and break off sharp flakes that could function as knives.
Researchers have dated stone tools from the Lingjing site in central China to 146,000 years ago, about 20,000 years earlier than previously believed. The tools, crafted by the extinct human species ...