Old beliefs about early human behavior in East Asia are being challenged by the discovery of a richly-layered archaeological ...

"Researchers have argued for decades that while hominins in Africa and western Europe demonstrated significant technological ...

An international team has discovered the earliest known hand-held wooden tools used by humans. A study jointly led by ...

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

Stone tools discovered on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi are rewriting what experts thought they knew about human evolution in this region. The tools date to about 1 million to 1.5 million years ...

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

Researchers have found two wooden tools crafted and used by humans at a site some 430,000 years ago. One tool is made of ...

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?

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

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