Archaeologists often break up this lengthy time span into three periods — the Paleolithic (3.3 million to 12,000 years ago), ...

Thousands of stone tools discovered in a South African cave reveal that Ice Age humans had developed ... colleagues to hypothesize that the Paleolithic people there shared tool-making knowledge ...

Discovery in China of tools called Quina scrapers suggests the people of East Asia were as inventive and flexible with ...

Evidence from a prehistoric site at the shore of the Dnister river in modern-day Ukraine shows that people living during the ...

An ancient amber bear figurine, unearthed by miners in northern Poland, is the subject of renewed attention following a study ...

Archaeologists previously assumed that East Asia did not see considerable tool development during the Middle Paleolithic, but ...

While the Paleolithic period involved a nomadic lifestyle and the invention of stone tools, the Neolithic period was ushered in with the development of agriculture and settled communities.

During the Middle Paleolithic, when Neanderthals were ... in Europe and Africa were inventing new tools during this period, people of East Asia stuck to only the most basic tools that remained ...

During the Middle Paleolithic, when Neanderthals were ... in Europe and Africa were inventing new tools during this period, people of East Asia stuck to only the most basic tools that remained ...