Ancient wooden tools found at a site in Gantangqing in southwestern China are approximately 300,000 years old, new dating has shown. Discovered during excavations carried out in 2014–15 and 2018 ...

300,000-year-old wooden tools found in southwestern China reveal surprising sophistication from the ancestors of modern humans.

During the last Ice Age,roughly between 26,000 and 19,000 years ago, the Earth was dramatically different from today. Vast ice sheets dominated the Northern Hemisphere, and much of the Southern ...

Archaeologists have uncovered rare artifacts from the Paleolithic era at Ulukoy Cave in Türkiye’s southeastern Mardin province, revealing the earliest known evidence of human activity in northern ...

For this, a 25-foot (7.5-meter) dugout canoe was made using replicas of ancient stone tools. The canoe was paddled about 140 miles (225 kilometers) across the open ocean, connecting eastern Taiwan ...

Ancient wooden tools found at a site in Gantangqing in southwestern China are approximately 300,000 years old, new dating has shown. Discovered during excavations carried out in 2014–15 and 2018–19, ...

Learn about the 430,000-year-old stone tools and techniques that allowed ancient humans to butcher elephant meat for a hefty meal.

Archaeologists have uncovered 3,500-year-old evidence at the ancient city of Troy that may point to a real war behind Homer's ...

In 2019, the team constructed a 7.5-meter dugout canoe called "Sugime," built from a single Japanese cedar trunk, using replicas of 30,000-year-old stone tools.

Our later Stone Age people or Neolithic people were farmers. This later period covers from about 4,000 BC to 2,000 BC, which ...

This team tried to cross 140 miles of treacherous ocean like stone-age humans—and it worked Long-standing questions about migration of early modern humans in East Asia may finally be answered ...

Science Archaeology Ancient canoe replica recreates a 30,000-year-old voyage East Asian Paleolithic voyagers may have used dugout canoes to cross one of the strongest currents in the world. Laura ...